Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Stockbridge	market town and parish with railway station	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 Stockbridge 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	Wiltshire and Hampshire	3
William Cobbett	Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst	2
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 31st, 1825: Winchester to Burghclere	1
William Cobbett	Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester	1
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	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
Little Somborne	0	1
Leckford	0	2
Longstock	0	2
Test Valley	0	1
Houghton	0	3
Kings Somborne	0	5
Chilbolton	0	2
Ashley	0	2
Wherwell	1	3
Broughton	1	2
Bossington	0	2
Crawley	0	2
Pittleworth	0	2
Crown Farm	0	2
Goodworth Clatford	0	2
Upper Eldon	0	2
Sparsholt	0	2
Upper Clatford	0	4
Queenwood	0	2
Nether Wallop	1	3