Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Colwall parish and village with railway station 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 Colwall 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.
Edwin Russell Oct. 3 to 9: Northleach, then to Herefordshire 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 1
Edwin Russell Nov. 6 to 8: Wellington Heath and Bishops Frome 1
Edwin Russell Nov. 11 to 14: Bosbury and Weston Beggard 1
Edwin Russell Nov. 15 to 25: Cradley, Withington and Madley 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
Coddington 0 2
Mathon 0 2
Upper Wyche 0 1
Little Malvern 0 3
Lower Wyche 0 2
Wellington Heath 6 2
West Malvern 0 3
Malvern Wells 0 2
Malvern 10 5
Bosbury 6 2
Eastnor 1 2
Welland 0 2
North Malvern 0 3
Ledbury 15 2
Cradley 1 2
Barnards Green 0 2
Storridge 0 1
Radlow 0 2
Castlemorton 0 3
Malvern Link 0 2