Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MADELEY	a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ironbridge	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
IRON-BRIDGE	a village and 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 Madeley 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	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	3
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	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
Ironbridge	0	2
Little Dawley	0	2
Coalbrookdale	3	2
Jackfield	0	1
Dawley	2	3
Broseley	3	2
Coalport	0	2
Stirchley	0	2
Benthall	4	2
Horsehay	0	2
Malinslee	0	2
Posenhall	0	2
Barrow	0	2
Sutton Maddock	0	2
Kemberton	0	2
Lawley	0	2
Buildwas	2	2
Willey	2	2
Linley	0	2
Little Wenlock	0	2