Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Sturminster Newton. You may be able to find further references to Sturminster Newton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
STURMINSTER	a district and a division	Imperial
Sturminster Newton	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew
Sturminster Newton Castle	hundred	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Sturminster Newton.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bagbere	tithing	Bartholomew
Fiddleford	village	Bartholomew

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 Sturminster Newton 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	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	1

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
Hinton St Mary	0	2
Fifehead Neville	0	2
Hammoon	0	2
Okeford Fitzpaine	0	2
Manston	0	2
Blackmoor Vale	0	2
Lydlinch	0	2
Belchalwell	0	2
Marnhull	1	2
Stalbridge	3	2
Brownshall	0	2
Stock Gaylard	0	2
Hazelbury Bryan	0	2
West Orchard	0	2
Childe Okeford	0	3
Redland	0	2
Ibberton	0	2
Shillingstone	1	4
Farringdon	0	2
Todber	0	2