Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
COALPORT	a village	Imperial
Jackfield	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
JACKFIELD	a village and a chapelry	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 Broseley 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	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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
Jackfield	0	1
Coalport	0	2
Ironbridge	0	2
Barrow	0	2
Willey	2	2
Madeley	6	2
Linley	0	2
Benthall	4	2
Posenhall	0	2
Coalbrookdale	3	2
Sutton Maddock	0	2
Little Dawley	0	2
Stockton	0	2
Dawley	2	3
Kemberton	0	2
Stirchley	0	2
Buildwas	2	2
Horsehay	0	2
Astley Abbotts	0	3
Malinslee	0	2