Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
STAFFORD	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
STAFFORD AND UTTOXETER RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Marston	township	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 Stafford 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.
Thomas Pennant	Stone to Stafford	12
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Staffordshire	3
Robert Gammage	Touring the Welsh border in 1852 and 1853	3
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	1
Thomas Pennant	Wybunbury to Darlaston	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
Forebridge	0	2
Coton	0	2
Castle Church	0	2
Rickerscote	0	1
Tillington	0	2
Derrington	0	2
Hopton	0	2
Cresswell	0	2
Coppenhall	0	2
Haughton	0	2
Baswich	1	3
Seighford	0	2
Tixall	8	2
Dunston	0	2
Marston	0	2
Salt	0	2
Acton Trussell	0	2
Whitgreave	0	2
Ingestre	8	2
Bednall	0	1