Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Penkridge	small town, parish, and township with railway station	Bartholomew
PENNOCRUCIUM	a quondam Roman station	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bickford	village	Bartholomew
BICKFORD	a village	Imperial
Congreve	hamlet	Bartholomew
Coppenhall	township	Bartholomew
COPPENHALL	a chapelry	Imperial
Drayton	hamlet	Bartholomew
DRAYTON	a township	Imperial
Dunston	township	Bartholomew
DUNSTON	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Gailey	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
LEVEDALE	a liberty	Imperial
LONGRIDGE	a liberty	Imperial
LOVEDALE	a township	Imperial
LYNEHILL	a liberty	Imperial
MITTON	a liberty	Imperial
OTHERTON	a liberty	Imperial
PILLATON	a liberty	Imperial
RODBASTON	a liberty	Imperial
Stretton	township and village	Bartholomew
STRETTON	a chapelry	Imperial
WATER-EATON	a liberty	Imperial
WHISTON	a liberty	Imperial
WOLGARSTONE	a liberty	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 Penkridge 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	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	2
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Staffordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol	1
Thomas Pennant	Lichfield	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
Kinvaston	0	2
Cuttlestone	0	2
Gailey	0	2
Bickford	0	2
Stretton	0	2
Dunston	0	2
Teddesley Hay	0	3
Hatherton	0	2
Huntington	0	2
Acton Trussell	0	2
Bednall	0	1
Coppenhall	0	2
Bradley	0	2
Lapley	0	2
Wollaston	0	1
Wheaton Aston	0	3
Rickerscote	0	1
Brewood	1	2
Saredon	0	2
Coven	0	2