Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bryanston like this:

BRYANSTONE, or Blandford-Bryan, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; on the river Stour, adjacent to the Central Dorset railway, 1½ mile NW by W of Blandford-Forum. Post Town, Blandford. Acres, 1,512. Real property, £1,284. Pop., 206. Houses, 36. Bryanstone House here is the seat of Lord Portman; is a large mansion, after a design by Wyatt; has an octagonal staircase, 30 feet in diameter; and stands in a park upwards of a mile long. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Durweston, in t...

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he diocese of Salisbury.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Bryanston by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bryanston within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Knighton	0	2
Blandford St Mary	0	2
Blandford Forum	9	3
Durweston	0	2
Winterborne Stickland	0	2
Langton Long Blandford	0	2
Littleton	0	2
Lazerton	0	2
Charlton Marshall	0	3
Stourpaine	0	2
Pimperne	0	3
Winterborne Clenston	0	2
Coombs Ditch	0	2
Hanford	0	1
Turnworth	0	2
Shillingstone	1	4
Iwerne Stepleton	0	2
Spetisbury	0	2
Winterborne Houghton	0	3
Tarrant Keynston	0	2