Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BURSLEM a town, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Abbey Hulton lordship Bartholomew
ABBEY-HULTON a lordship Imperial
Bradley hamlet Bartholomew
BRADLY a hamlet Imperial
Cobridge ecclesiastical district and hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
COBRIDGE a chapelry Imperial
Longport ecclesiastical district and railway station Bartholomew
LONGPORT a village Imperial
RUSHTON-GRANGE a ville Imperial
Sneyd ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
SNEYD a hamlet 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 Burslem 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 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 3

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
Rushton Grange 0 1
Longport 0 2
Cobridge 0 2
Sneyd 0 2
Chesterton 1 2
Smallthorne 0 2
Northwood 0 2
Etruria 0 2
Hanley 1 2
Tunstall 1 2
Norton in the Moors 0 3
Wellington 0 2
Shelton 0 2
Sandyford 0 2
Milton 0 2
Cross Heath 0 1
Wolstanton 1 2
Hope 0 2
Chell 1 1
Stoke on Trent 1 2