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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about South Leigh. You may be able to find further references to South Leigh in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Leigh, South | parish | Bartholomew |
Southleigh | parish and railway station | Bartholomew |
South Leigh | railway station | Bartholomew |
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 South Leigh 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. |
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Charles Wesley | Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 1737: Oxfordshire, and down to Devon | 2 |
Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol | 1 |
John Wesley | 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People | 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 |
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Cogges | 3 | 2 |
Hardwick | 0 | 1 |
Osney Hill | 0 | 1 |
Eynsham | 3 | 3 |
Ducklington | 0 | 2 |
Stanton Harcourt | 6 | 2 |
Witney | 4 | 2 |
Standlake | 0 | 2 |
Freeland | 0 | 2 |
Yelford | 0 | 2 |
Hailey | 0 | 2 |
Brighthampton | 0 | 2 |
Curbridge | 0 | 2 |
North Leigh | 0 | 3 |
Handborough | 0 | 3 |
Shifford | 0 | 2 |
Northmoor | 0 | 3 |
Cote | 0 | 1 |
Wilcote | 0 | 2 |
Cassington | 0 | 2 |