Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CONGLETON	a town, a township, three chapelries, a sub-district, and a district	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 Congleton 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.
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	3
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Thomas Pennant	Wybunbury to Darlaston	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
Mossley	0	2
Buglawton	0	2
Eaton By Congleton	1	2
Hulme Walfield	0	2
Astbury	0	4
North Rode	0	3
Radnor	0	2
Moreton	0	2
Rushton	0	2
Biddulph	1	4
Somerford	0	4
Alcumlow	0	1
Marton	0	2
Biddulph Moor	0	1
Mowcop	0	2
Bosley	0	2
Knypersley	0	2
Odd Rode	0	2
Smallwood	0	2
Dales Green	0	2