County
Wiltshire
31 places in the corpus · 3,979 dated entries · 1216–1483.
Places are grouped by historic county. The county of each place is taken from the printed indexes (which qualify a place as “co. Norfolk”) and the gazetteer, then normalised to the traditional shire.
Shaded: the historic county of Wiltshire. Source: Historic County Borders Project (county-borders.co.uk), traditional counties. A proxy for the medieval shire, not a medieval reconstruction.
About these overlays & sources
These layers are real published datasets, not derived from the rolls, clipped to this county's neighbourhood for context. Each is external research data, reprojected but otherwise unmodified:
- Gough Map roads (c.1355–1360) — Oksanen, E. & Brookes, S. (2024) The Routes and Roads of the Gough Map: GIS Database. ADS. doi:10.5284/1124312.
- Navigable rivers (courses with direct and indirect evidence of medieval traffic) — Oksanen, E. (2019) Inland Navigation in England and Wales before 1348. ADS. doi:10.5284/1057497.
- Bridges to c.1250 — Brookes, S., Rye, E. & Oksanen, E. (2019) Bridges of Medieval England to c.1250. ADS. doi:10.5284/1053676. CC BY 4.0.
- Monastic houses (dissolution-era) — after MonasteryQuest, stainedglassattitudes.com.
- Terrain relief: Esri World Shaded Relief. The clean default base is CARTO (label-free), © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Activity over time
Where the court came from and went next (outside the county, click a bar)
From the seal's movement network: the places it was at immediately before arriving in this county (arrived from) and immediately after leaving it (departed to). Click a bar to open that place.
Places (31 in the county; the map shows those we could geolocate)
- Clarendon 3,119
- Marlborough 1,441
- Salisbury 757
- Amesbury 201
- Southwick 185
- Alton 129
- Chippenham 53
- Ludgershall 47
- Wroughton 43
- Liddington 39
- Ramsbury 36
- Bedwin 31
- Dunton 27
- Cricklade 20
- Ford 20
- Mildenhall 18
- Malmesbury 13
- Corsham 12
- Devizes Castle 11
- Ogbourne 8
- Heywood 7
- Avebury 4
- Bradenstoke 4
- Lavington 4
- Sherston 4
- Aldbourn 3
- Bishopstone 3
- Mere 3
- Fasterne 2
- Ogbourn 2
- Warminster 2