Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wroxeter	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Donnington	hamlet	Bartholomew
DONNINGTON	a township	Imperial
Dryton	hamlet	Bartholomew
DRYTON	a township	Imperial
Eyton upon Severn	hamlet	Bartholomew
EYTON-UPON-SEVERN	a township	Imperial
RUSHTON	a township	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 Wroxeter 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	Shropshire and Cheshire	12
William Camden	Rest of Wales	1
Thomas Pennant	Lichfield	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
Donnington	0	2
Uppington	0	2
Eaton Constantine	0	2
Leighton	0	2
Wrekin	0	2
Withington	0	2
Atcham	0	2
Berwick	0	2
Cound	0	2
Cressage	0	2
Sheinton	0	3
Berrington	0	2
Wrockwardine	0	2
Upton Magna	0	2
Rodington	0	2
Little Wenlock	0	2
Haughmond	0	2
Buildwas	2	2
Pitchford	1	2
Betton Strange	0	3