Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Great Malvern	railway station	Bartholomew
MALVERN (GREAT)	a town and a parish	Imperial
Malvern Hills	hill-range	Bartholomew
MALVERN HILLS		Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GUARLFORD	a chapelry	Imperial
MALVERN (NORTH)	a chapelry	Imperial
NEWLAND	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 Malvern 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	4
William Gilpin	London to Ross	3
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	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
Lower Wyche	0	2
Malvern Wells	0	2
West Malvern	0	3
Barnards Green	0	2
Upper Wyche	0	1
North Malvern	0	3
Malvern Link	0	2
Guarlford	0	2
Madresfield	0	2
Mathon	0	2
Storridge	0	1
Newland	0	2
Hanley Castle	1	2
Colwall	6	2
Welland	0	2
Leigh Sinton	0	1
Little Malvern	0	3
Cradley	1	2
Leigh	0	2
Coddington	0	2