Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Northfield	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bartley Green	village	Bartholomew
BARTLEY, or Bartley Green	a subdivision of Northfield parish	Imperial
Hay	district	Bartholomew
HAY	a division	Imperial
Selly Oak	ecclesiastical district, and railway station	Bartholomew
SELLY-OAK	a chapelry	Imperial
SHENDLEY	a section of Northfield parish	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 Northfield 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.
Edwin Russell	Nov. 26 to Dec. 7: Western Herefordshire	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
Bartley Green	0	2
Selly Oak	0	2
Stirchley	0	2
Quinton	0	2
Frankley	1	2
Illey	0	3
Lapal	0	2
Edgbaston	0	2
Harborne	0	2
Rubery	0	1
Kings Norton	0	2
Kings Heath	0	2
Warley Salop	0	2
Hunnington	0	2
Cofton Hackett	0	2
Rednall	0	2
Hill	0	2
Headley Heath	0	2
Hopwood	0	2
Moseley	0	2