Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Namptwich		Bartholomew
Nantwich	hundred	Bartholomew
NANTWICH	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
NANTWICH and MARKET-DRAYTON RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ALVASTON	a township	Imperial
LEIGHTON	a township	Imperial
Leighton (or Leighton Chapel)	township	Bartholomew
MINSHULL-VERNON	a village and a township	Imperial
WILLASTON	a township	Imperial
Woolstanwood	township	Bartholomew
WOOLSTANWOOD	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 Nantwich 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	Nantwich	12
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	2
Thomas Pennant	Chester to Bunbury	2
Thomas Pennant	Wybunbury to Darlaston	2
George Head	Cheshire	1
Thomas Pennant	Gorhambury and Verulamium	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	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
Henhull	0	2
Willaston	0	2
Edleston	0	2
Stapeley	0	2
Batherton	1	2
Worleston	0	2
Acton	8	3
Alvaston	0	2
Baddington	0	2
Poole	0	2
Wistaston	0	2
Austerson	0	2
Rope	0	2
Burland	0	2
Hurleston	0	2
Aston Juxta Mondrum	0	3
Woolstanwood	0	2
Shavington	1	3
Sound	0	2
Baddiley	2	2