Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Drayton in Hales	parish	Bartholomew
DRAYTON-IN-HALES, or Market-Drayton	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Market Drayton	market town and township with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DRAYTON-MAGNA	a township	Imperial
DRAYTON-PARVA	a township-chapelry	Imperial
LONGSLOW	a township	Imperial
SUTTON	a township	Imperial
WOODSEAVES	a township	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 Market Drayton 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	2

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
Little Drayton	0	1
Sutton upon Tern	0	1
Oakley	0	2
Moreton Say	0	2
Tyrley	0	3
Hales	0	2
Tittenley	0	2
Norton in Hales	0	3
Adderley	0	2
Blore	2	2
Stoke upon Tern	0	2
Cheswardine	0	2
Mucklestone	2	3
Calverhall	0	2
North Bradford	0	2
Hinstock	0	2
Ightfield	0	2
Wilkesley	0	1
Fauls	0	2
Buerton	0	2