Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
TAMWORTH	a town, a township, and a parish	Imperial
Tamworth Castle	township	Bartholomew
TAMWORTH-CASTLE	a liberty	Imperial
Tamworth (or Northern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bangley	liberty	Bartholomew
BANGLEY	a liberty	Imperial
Bitterscote	liberty	Bartholomew
BITTERSCOTE, or Biddescote	a liberty	Imperial
BONEHILL	a liberty	Imperial
Bonehlll	liberty	Bartholomew
Comberford	village	Bartholomew
COMBERFORD	a village	Imperial
Coton	village	Bartholomew
DUNSTALL	a liberty	Imperial
HOPWAS	a hamlet-chapelry	Imperial
Syerscote	township	Bartholomew
SYERSCOTE	a township	Imperial
WIGGINTON	a township 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 Tamworth 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.
Thomas Pennant	Tamworth to Meriden	8
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	3
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	2
Thomas Pennant	Coventry	2
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Thomas Pennant	Lichfield	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
Glascote	0	3
Amington	0	3
Wilnecote	0	2
Fazeley	7	2
Wiggington	0	2
Dosthill	0	2
Coton	0	2
Hopwas	0	2
Syerscote	1	2
Shuttington	0	2
Statfold	0	2
Comberford	0	2
Drayton Bassett	4	2
Hopwas Hays	0	2
Polesworth	3	2
Tamhorn	0	2
Thorpe Constantine	1	2
Dordon	0	2
Packington	0	2
Seckington	3	2