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A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Welford on Avon, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Welford on Avon in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bickmarsh and Little Dorsington | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| BICKMARSH and LITTLE DORSINGTON | a hamlet | Imperial |
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Welford on Avon like this:
WELFORD, a village in Gloucestershire, a parish partly also in Warwickshire, and all in the district of Stratford-on-Avon. The village stands on the river Avon, 1½ mile W by N of Milcote r. station, and 4 SW of Stratford-on-Avon; and has a post-office under Stratford-on-Avon. The parish comprises 3,550 acres. Real property of the Gloucester portion, £3,914. Pop., 627. Houses, 150. Real property of the Warwick portion, consisting of Bickmarsh and Little Dorsington hamlet, £1,256. Pop., 50. Houses...
, 11. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £450.* Patron, Countess Delawarr. The church was restored in 1867. Charities, £7.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Welford on Avon by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dorsington | 0 | 2 |
| Bickmarsh | 0 | 2 |
| Temple Grafton | 0 | 5 |
| Long Marston | 2 | 3 |
| Pebworth | 1 | 2 |
| Weston on Avon | 0 | 2 |
| Bidford on Avon | 1 | 2 |
| Luddington | 0 | 2 |
| Binton | 0 | 2 |
| Milcote | 0 | 1 |
| Cleeve Priors | 0 | 2 |
| Exhall | 0 | 2 |
| Wixford | 0 | 2 |
| North Littleton | 0 | 3 |
| Clifford Chambers | 0 | 2 |
| Church Honeybourne | 0 | 3 |
| Quinton | 4 | 2 |
| Middle Littleton | 0 | 1 |
| Billesley | 0 | 2 |
| South Littleton | 0 | 3 |