Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Whitchurch	market town and township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alkington	township	Bartholomew
ALKINGTON	a township	Imperial
ASH	a chapelry	Imperial
Ash Magna	township	Bartholomew
Ash Parva	township	Bartholomew
Black Park	township	Bartholomew
BLACK PARK	a township	Imperial
Broughall	place	Bartholomew
BROUGHALL	a township	Imperial
Bubney	hamlet	Bartholomew
BUBNEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Budney	hamlet	Bartholomew
BUDNEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Chinnell	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHINNELL	a township	Imperial
DODINGTON	a township	Imperial
Edgeley	hamlet	Bartholomew
EDGELEY	a township	Imperial
Grimpo	school	Bartholomew
Grindley Brook	hamlet with school	Bartholomew
Hinton	township	Bartholomew
HINTON	a township	Imperial
Hollyhurst	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOLLYHURST	a township	Imperial
TILSTOCK	a chapelry	Imperial
WOODHOUSES (New and Old)	two townships	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 Whitchurch 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	4
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	2
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	2
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 12: Oswestry and Shrewsbury	1
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	1
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	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
Dodington	0	2
Wirswall	0	2
Agden	0	2
Tushingham	0	3
Ash	0	2
Tilstock	0	2
Marbury	0	3
Chidlow	0	2
Is Coed	0	2
Combermere	4	2
Bradley	0	2
Wigland	0	2
Macefen	0	3
Norbury	0	2
Bronington	0	3
Burleydam	0	2
Wychough	0	2
Tybroughton	0	2
Bickley	0	2
Ightfield	0	2