Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LIDFORD, or LYDFORD	a village and a parish	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CROCKERN-TOR	a rugged eminence	Imperial
DARTMOOR FOREST		Imperial
Dinnabridge	hamlet	Bartholomew
DINNABRIDGE	a hamlet	Imperial
Hexworthy	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEXWORTHY	a hamlet	Imperial
Huckaby	hamlet	Bartholomew
HUCKABY	a hamlet	Imperial
Princetown	village 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 Lydford 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	Cornwall and Devon	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
Dartmoor	0	2
Princetown	0	2
Fernworthy	0	3
Petertavy	0	2
Walkhampton	0	2
Widecombe in the Moor	0	4
Gidleigh	0	2
Horndon	0	2
Chagford	1	2
Leusdon	0	2
Marytavy	0	4
Lanehead	0	2
North Bovey	0	3
Sampford Spiney	0	2
Holystreet	0	2
Manaton	0	2
Throwleigh	0	2
Holne	0	2
Buckland in the Moor	0	2
Whitchurch	0	2