Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WILTON	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Wilton (or Southern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bulbridge	tithing	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 Wilton 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	8
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	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
Bulbridge	0	2
Ditchampton	0	2
Fugglestone St Peter	0	2
Quidhampton	0	1
Burcombe	0	2
Netherhampton	0	3
Bemerton	0	2
West Harnham	0	2
South Newton	0	3
Barford St Martin	0	2
Fisherton Anger	0	2
Great Wishford	2	2
Salisbury	114	4
Stratford Sub Castle	2	2
Groveley Wood	0	2
Bishopstone	0	2
Stratford Tony	0	2
Old Sarum	0	2
East Harnham	0	2
Coombe Bissett	0	3