Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Rugeley market town and parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
BRERETON 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 Rugeley 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 5

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
Brereton 0 1
Wolseley 2 2
Colton 4 2
Armitage 3 2
Mavesyn Ridware 2 2
Beaudesert 2 2
Longdon 3 2
Pipe Ridware 3 2
Cannock Wood 0 1
Gentleshaw 0 2
Little Haywood 0 3
Lea Lane 0 2
Newlands 0 2
Colwich 4 2
Hednesford 0 2
Blithfield 3 2
Brocton 0 2
Great Haywood 10 3
Shugborough 7 2
Farewell 2 2