Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
KIDDERMINSTER	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Kidderminster Foreign	township	Bartholomew
KIDDERMINSTER-FOREIGN	a division of Kidderminster parish	Imperial
Kidderminster Old Borough	township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Commerton	hamlet	Bartholomew
COMMERTON, or Comberton	a hamlet	Imperial
DUNCLENT	a hamlet	Imperial
Eyemore	hamlet	Bartholomew
EYEMORE	a hamlet	Imperial
Franche	hamlet	Bartholomew
FRANCHE	a hamlet	Imperial
Hircott	hamlet	Bartholomew
HIRCOTT	a hamlet	Imperial
Hoarstone	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOARSTONE	a hamlet	Imperial
LICKHILL	a hamlet	Imperial
MITTON (LOWER)	a chapelry	Imperial
Mitton, Lower, with Stourport	township	Bartholomew
NETHERTON	a hamlet	Imperial
PUXTON	a hamlet	Imperial
SEVERN VALLEY railway	a railway	Imperial
Trimpley	curacy	Bartholomew
Wannerton	hamlet	Bartholomew
WANNERTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Wribbenhall	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WRIBBENHALL	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 Kidderminster 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.
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	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
Wyre Forest	2	1
Wribbenhall	0	2
Stone	0	2
Wolverley	0	2
Cookley	0	2
Trimpley	0	2
Upper Mitton	0	2
Stourport on Severn	0	2
Lower Mitton	0	3
Churchill	0	2
Dowles	0	2
Bewdley	6	3
Hartlebury	1	2
Ribbesford	0	2
Chaddesley Corbett	1	2
Upper Arley	0	3
Broome	0	2
Areley Kings	0	2
Rushock	0	2
Kinver	0	3