Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
WALSALL	a town, two townships, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	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 Walsall 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	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	3
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	2
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	2
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1
John Wesley	1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs	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
Birchills	0	2
Pleck	0	2
Bentley	1	2
Rushall	0	2
Blakenall Heath	0	1
Bescot	0	2
Bloxwich	0	2
Darlaston	9	2
Wood Green	0	1
Short Heath	0	1
Willenhall	0	2
Wednesbury	35	2
Pelsall	0	2
Aldridge	0	2
Portobello	0	1
Moxley	0	2
Essington	0	1
Great Barr	0	3
Wednesfield	0	2
Bilston	1	2