Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Pershore	hundred	Bartholomew
PERSHORE	a town	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Pensham	hamlet	Bartholomew
Pinvin	township and village	Bartholomew
St Andrew	township	Bartholomew
Wadborough	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
Walcott	hamlet	Bartholomew
Wick (near Pershore)	township	Bartholomew
WICK-NEAR-PERSHORE	a chapelry	Imperial

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 Pershore 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	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	2
Celia Fiennes	To Herefordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	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
Drakes Broughton	0	1
Besford	0	2
Stoulton	0	2
Pinvin	0	2
Pirton	0	2
Peopleton	0	2
Pensham	0	2
White Ladies Aston	0	2
Wyre Piddle	0	2
Wick	0	3
Defford	0	2
Norton Juxta Kempsey	0	1
Croome Dabitot	0	2
Birlingham	0	2
Oswaldslow	0	2
Moor	0	2
Throckmorton	0	2
Churchill	0	2
Cowsdon	0	2
Naunton Beauchamp	0	2