Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WEM	a small-town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aston	township	Bartholomew
ASTON	a township	Imperial
Cotton	village	Bartholomew
COTTON	a township	Imperial
DITCHES	a township	Imperial
Edstaston	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
EDSTASTON	a chapelry	Imperial
FRENCH	a township	Imperial
Horton	hamlet	Bartholomew
HORTON	a township	Imperial
LACON	a township	Imperial
LOWE	a township	Imperial
Northwood	hamlet	Bartholomew
NORTHWOOD	a township	Imperial
PRESTON-BROCKHURST	a township	Imperial
SLEAP	a township	Imperial
SOULTON	a township	Imperial
TILLEY-WITH-FRENCH	a township	Imperial
WOOLVERLEY	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 Wem 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.
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	2
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	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
Horton	0	2
Edstaston	0	2
Lee Brockhurst	0	2
Clive	0	2
Newtown	0	2
Loppington	0	2
Preston Brockhurst	2	2
Broughton	0	2
Moston	0	2
Weston under Redcastle	2	2
Whixall	0	3
Grinshill	0	2
Myddle	0	2
Hawkstone	0	2
Moreton Corbet	1	2
Prees	0	2
Stanton upon Hine Heath	0	3
Petton	2	2
Pimhill	0	2
Lyneal	0	3