Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cannock	town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CANNOCK WOOD	a township	Imperial
GENTLESHAWE	a chapelry	Imperial
Hazel Slade	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEDNESFORD	a township	Imperial
Huntington	township	Bartholomew
HUNTINGTON	a township	Imperial
LEACROFT	a township	Imperial
Wyrley, Great	township and village	Bartholomew
WYRLEY (Great)	a township	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 Cannock 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	Colwich to Beaudesert	9
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	4
Thomas Pennant	Stone to Stafford	2

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
Hednesford	0	2
Norton Canes	0	2
Huntington	0	2
Cannock Wood	0	1
Great Wyrley	0	2
Cheslyn Hay	0	2
Gentleshaw	0	2
Chasetown	0	2
Brownhills	0	2
Brereton	0	1
Hatherton	0	2
Beaudesert	2	2
Burntwood	0	2
Saredon	0	2
Teddesley Hay	0	3
Hammerwich	1	2
Shareshill	0	2
Pelsall	0	2
Longdon	3	2
Ogley Hay	0	2