Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BLOCKHOUSE	an extra-parochial tract	Imperial
WORCESTER		Imperial
WORCESTER, BROMYARD, AND LEOMINSTER RAILWAY	a railway	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 Worcester 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	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	12
William Cobbett	Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire	7
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	5
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	3
Celia Fiennes	To Herefordshire	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	3
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (2)	2
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	2
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	2
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	2
George Borrow	Festiniog	1
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
William Gilpin	London to Ross	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	1
John Wesley	1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life	1
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	1
Thomas Pennant	Northampton to Gothurst	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	1
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	1
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	1
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	1
Edwin Russell	Oct. 11 to Nov. 1: Condition of Farm Labourers	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
Whistones	0	2
Bedwardine	0	4
Henwick	0	2
Barbourne	0	2
Boughton	0	2
Wick Episcopi	0	2
Rushwick	0	1
Claines	0	2
Broadheath	0	2
Warndon	0	2
Whittington	0	2
Bevere	0	2
Fernhill Heath	0	2
Hallow	0	2
Spetchley	0	2
Hawford	0	2
Hindlip	0	3
Norton Juxta Kempsey	0	1
Powick	1	2
Bredicot	0	2