Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Church Stretton	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
All-Stretton	township	Bartholomew
ALL-STRETTON	a township	Imperial
Little Stretton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Minton	village	Bartholomew
MINTON	a township	Imperial
Stretton, Little	hamlet	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 Church Stretton 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
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	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
Little Stretton	0	2
All Stretton	0	2
Hope Bowdler	0	2
Marshbrook	0	2
Woolstaston	1	2
Acton Scott	0	2
Leebotwood	0	2
Asterton	0	2
Old Church Moor	0	1
Smethcott	0	2
Wall	0	1
Ratlinghope	1	2
Eaton under Haywood	0	2
Myndtown	0	2
Cardington	0	2
Rushbury	0	2
Wentnor	0	2
Norbury	0	2
Wistanstow	0	2
Longnor	0	2