Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WOLVERHAMPTON	a town, a township, a parish, and a district	Imperial
WOLVERHAMPTON AND WALSALL RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bentley	township with railway station	Bartholomew
BENTLEY	a township	Imperial
BILSTON	a town, a township, three chapelries, and a subdistrict	Imperial
BRADLEY	a chapelry	Imperial
Featherstone	township	Bartholomew
FEATHERSTONE	a township	Imperial
Hatherton	township	Bartholomew
HATHERTON	a township	Imperial
Hilton	township	Bartholomew
HILTON	a township	Imperial
Kinvaston	township	Bartholomew
KINVASTON	a township	Imperial
Pelsall	township and railway station	Bartholomew
PELSALL	a township-chapelry	Imperial
PORTOBELLO	a village	Imperial
Short Heath	town with railway station	Bartholomew
Wednesfield	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
WEDNESFIELD	a township and two chapelries	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 Wolverhampton 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.
George Borrow	Bala to Dinas Mawddwy	11
George Borrow	Llangollen Again	7
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	5
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	4
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	4
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	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
Heathtown	0	1
Blakenhall	0	1
Oxley	0	1
Ettingshall	0	2
Tettenhall	3	2
Penn	0	2
Wednesfield	0	2
Portobello	0	1
Bushbury	0	2
Bilston	1	2
Wrottesley	1	2
Deepfields	0	2
Moseley	0	2
Willenhall	0	2
Bradley	1	2
Coseley	0	2
Short Heath	0	1
Cotwall End	0	2
Moxley	0	2
Featherstone	0	2