Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BROMSGROVE, or Broomsgrove	a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CATSHILL	a chapelry	Imperial
Catshill, or Chadshill	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
CHADWICK	a hamlet	Imperial
Fockbury	agricultural district	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 Bromsgrove 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.
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Edwin Russell	Nov. 26 to Dec. 7: Western Herefordshire	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
Catshill	0	2
Blackwell	0	2
Finstall	0	1
Halfshire	0	2
Fairfield	0	2
Dodford	0	2
Lickey	0	2
Tutnall	0	2
Tardebigge	0	2
Barnt Green	0	1
Rednall	0	2
Cobley	0	1
Grafton Manor	1	2
Belbroughton	0	2
Stoke Prior	0	2
Cofton Hackett	0	2
Rubery	0	1
Upton Warren	0	2
Webheath	0	2
Romsley	0	3