Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Colwich parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bishton township Bartholomew
BISHTON a township Imperial
DROINTON a township Imperial
Fradswell township Bartholomew
FRADSWELL a township-chapelry Imperial
HAYWOOD (GREAT) a township and a chapelry Imperial
HAYWOOD (LITTLE) a township Imperial
HIXON a chapelry Imperial
MORETON a township Imperial
Mount Priory hamlet Bartholomew
MOUNT-PRIORY a hamlet Imperial
Shugborough hamlet Bartholomew
SHUGHBOROUGH a township Imperial
Swanmoor hamlet Bartholomew
WOLSELEY a township 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 Colwich 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 3
Thomas Pennant Stone to Stafford 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
Little Haywood 0 3
Great Haywood 10 3
Shugborough 7 2
Wolseley 2 2
Ingestre 8 2
Lea Lane 0 2
Blithfield 3 2
Tixall 8 2
Hixon 0 2
Shirleywich 0 2
Colton 4 2
Brocton 0 2
Baswich 1 3
Stowe 2 2
Rugeley 5 2
Weston under Trent 1 3
Brereton 0 1
Newlands 0 2
Gayton 0 2
Bednall 0 1