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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Leominster. You may be able to find further references to Leominster in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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LEOMINSTER AND KINGTON RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
Leominster In, and Leominster Out | 2 townships | Bartholomew |
LEOMINSTERpopularly LEMSTER-a town | a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Leominster.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Broadward and Brierley | township | Bartholomew |
Cholstrey | hamlet | Bartholomew |
CHOLSTREY | a township | Imperial |
Eaton | hamlet | Bartholomew |
EATON | a township | Imperial |
Henner | hamlet | Bartholomew |
HENNER | a township | Imperial |
Hide | hamlet | Bartholomew |
HIDE | a township | Imperial |
Ivington | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
NEWTOWN | a township | Imperial |
Ryelands | hamlet | Bartholomew |
RYELANDS | a hamlet | Imperial |
STAGBATCH | a township | Imperial |
STRETFORD | a township | Imperial |
WHARTON | a township | Imperial |
WINTERCOTT | a township | Imperial |
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 Leominster 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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William Camden | Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan | 9 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales | 7 |
Charles Wesley | 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne | 3 |
Charles Wesley | 1750: Bristol and London | 3 |
William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 2 |
Gerald of Wales | Book II, Ch. 13: Ludlow and Hereford | 1 |
William Camden | Wiltshire and Hampshire | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 1 |
Edwin Russell | Nov. 26 to Dec. 7: Western Herefordshire | 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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Ivington | 0 | 2 |
Eaton | 0 | 2 |
Ford | 0 | 4 |
Monkland | 0 | 2 |
Newton | 0 | 4 |
Lawton | 0 | 2 |
Hope under Dinmore | 0 | 3 |
Eyton | 0 | 2 |
Stretford | 0 | 4 |
Stoke Prior | 0 | 2 |
Birley | 0 | 2 |
Luston | 0 | 2 |
Kimbolton | 0 | 2 |
Kingsland | 0 | 2 |
Wolphy | 0 | 2 |
Humber | 0 | 2 |
West Town | 0 | 2 |
Croft | 1 | 2 |
Dinmore | 0 | 2 |
Eye | 0 | 3 |