Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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 Darlaston 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.
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	3
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	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
Bescot	0	2
Willenhall	0	2
Bentley	1	2
Moxley	0	2
Pleck	0	2
Wood Green	0	1
Portobello	0	1
Wednesbury	35	2
Bilston	1	2
Short Heath	0	1
Walsall	15	2
Bradley	1	2
Birchills	0	2
Ocker Hill	0	2
Princes End	0	2
Wednesfield	0	2
Black Country	0	1
Deepfields	0	2
Heathtown	0	1
Bloxwich	0	2