A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ledbury. You may be able to find further references to Ledbury in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | LEDBURY | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ledbury.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Parkhold | township | Bartholomew | PARKHOLD | a township | Imperial | WELLINGTON-HEATH | a chapelry | Imperial |
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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 Ledbury 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. | Henry Vincent | Mar. 10 to 16: Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Hereford | 6 | Edwin Russell | Oct. 22 to 26: Breaking up the Fallow Ground | 3 | William Camden | Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales | 1 | Edwin Russell | Oct. 3 to 9: Northleach, then to Herefordshire | 1 | Edwin Russell | mid-Oct.: Pembridge | 1 | Edwin Russell | Oct. 11 to Nov. 1: Condition of Farm Labourers | 1 | Edwin Russell | Nov. 6 to 8: Wellington Heath and Bishops Frome | 1 |
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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 |
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| Wellington Heath | 6 | 2 |
| Eastnor | 1 | 2 |
| Donnington | 0 | 2 |
| Little Marcle | 0 | 3 |
| Preston | 0 | 2 |
| Aylton | 0 | 2 |
| Coddington | 0 | 2 |
| Bromsberrow | 0 | 2 |
| Radlow | 0 | 2 |
| Munsley | 0 | 2 |
| Parkhold | 0 | 2 |
| Pixley | 0 | 2 |
| Colwall | 6 | 2 |
| Bosbury | 6 | 2 |
| Dymock | 0 | 2 |
| Upleadon | 0 | 2 |
| Little Malvern | 0 | 3 |
| Putley | 3 | 3 |
| Canon Frome | 2 | 2 |
| Much Marcle | 2 | 3 |
