Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
YEOVIL	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hendford	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
HENDFORD	a chapelry	Imperial
Huntly	tithing	Bartholomew
HUNTLY	a tything	Imperial
WIGDON	a tything	Imperial
Yeovil Marsh	ecclesiastical district	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 Yeovil 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	5
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
Robert Gammage	Eight months in Sherborne	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
Kingston Pitney	0	1
Hendford	0	2
Preston Plucknett	1	3
Stone	0	2
Barwick	0	2
Alvington	0	2
Yeovil Marsh	0	1
Brympton	1	2
Stoford	0	2
Bradford Abbas	0	2
Thorne	0	2
Over Compton	0	2
East Coker	0	2
Lufton	0	2
Mudford	0	2
Clifton Maybank	1	2
West Coker	0	3
Chilthorne Domer	0	2
Odcombe	1	2
Nether Compton	0	3