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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Stafford. You may be able to find further references to Stafford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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STAFFORD | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
STAFFORD AND UTTOXETER RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Stafford.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Marston | township | Bartholomew |
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 Stafford 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. |
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Thomas Pennant | Stone to Stafford | 12 |
William Camden | Worcestershire and Staffordshire | 4 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands | 3 |
Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Staffordshire | 3 |
Robert Gammage | Touring the Welsh border in 1852 and 1853 | 3 |
Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley | 1 |
John Wesley | 1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England | 1 |
Thomas Pennant | Wybunbury to Darlaston | 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 |
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Forebridge | 0 | 2 |
Coton | 0 | 2 |
Castle Church | 0 | 2 |
Rickerscote | 0 | 1 |
Tillington | 0 | 2 |
Derrington | 0 | 2 |
Hopton | 0 | 2 |
Cresswell | 0 | 2 |
Coppenhall | 0 | 2 |
Haughton | 0 | 2 |
Baswich | 1 | 3 |
Seighford | 0 | 2 |
Tixall | 8 | 2 |
Dunston | 0 | 2 |
Marston | 0 | 2 |
Salt | 0 | 2 |
Acton Trussell | 0 | 2 |
Whitgreave | 0 | 2 |
Ingestre | 8 | 2 |
Bednall | 0 | 1 |