Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LEOMINSTER AND KINGTON RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
Leominster In, and Leominster Out	2 townships	Bartholomew
LEOMINSTERpopularly LEMSTER-a town	a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broadward and Brierley	township	Bartholomew
Cholstrey	hamlet	Bartholomew
CHOLSTREY	a township	Imperial
Eaton	hamlet	Bartholomew
EATON	a township	Imperial
Henner	hamlet	Bartholomew
HENNER	a township	Imperial
Hide	hamlet	Bartholomew
HIDE	a township	Imperial
Ivington	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
NEWTOWN	a township	Imperial
Ryelands	hamlet	Bartholomew
RYELANDS	a hamlet	Imperial
STAGBATCH	a township	Imperial
STRETFORD	a township	Imperial
WHARTON	a township	Imperial
WINTERCOTT	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 Leominster 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	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	9
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	7
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	3
Charles Wesley	1750: Bristol and London	3
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	2
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 13: Ludlow and Hereford	1
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
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
Ivington	0	2
Eaton	0	2
Ford	0	4
Monkland	0	2
Newton	0	4
Lawton	0	2
Hope under Dinmore	0	3
Eyton	0	2
Stretford	0	4
Stoke Prior	0	2
Birley	0	2
Luston	0	2
Kimbolton	0	2
Kingsland	0	2
Wolphy	0	2
Humber	0	2
West Town	0	2
Croft	1	2
Dinmore	0	2
Eye	0	3