Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
CHAD (St.) a parish and a subdistrict Imperial
JULIAN (ST.) a parish Imperial
SHREWSBURY a town, five parishes, and a district Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMlNGHAM RAILWAY a railway Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY a railway Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND CREWE RAILWAY a railway Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY a railway Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND NORTH WALES RAILWAY a railway Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND POTTERIES JUNCTION RAILWAY an assemblage of railway lines Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND STAFFORD RAILWAY a railway Imperial
SHREWSBURY AND WELSHPOOL RAILWAY a railway Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
HARLSCOTT a township Imperial
Longner hamlet Bartholomew
Oxon and Shelton ecclesiastical district Bartholomew

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 Shrewsbury 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 15
Arthur Young 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire 10
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands 4
Gerald of Wales Book II, Ch. 12: Oswestry and Shrewsbury 3
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol 3
Robert Gammage Touring the Welsh border in 1852 and 1853 3
Gerald of Wales Book II, Ch. 13: Ludlow and Hereford 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland 2
John Wesley 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost 2
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 2
John Wesley 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland 2
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 10: Carmarthen 1
William Camden The Division of Britaine 1
William Camden Worcestershire and Staffordshire 1
William Camden Northumberland 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 1
Celia Fiennes To Herefordshire 1
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Staffordshire 1
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire 1
William Gilpin To the source of the Wye 1
John Wesley 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon 1
Thomas Pennant Wybunbury to Darlaston 1
Thomas Pennant Colwich to Beaudesert 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South 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
Frankwell 0 1
Coleham 0 2
Sutton 0 2
Shelton 0 2
Harlescott 0 2
Meole Brace 0 3
Great Berwick 0 2
Oxon 0 2
Betton Strange 0 3
Bayston Hill 0 2
Battlefield 1 2
Haughmond 0 2
Uffington 0 2
Bicton 0 1
Albrighton 1 2
Berwick 0 2
Great Hanwood 0 2
Atcham 0 2
Upton Magna 0 2
Horton 0 3