Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Checkley	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beamhurst	village	Bartholomew
BEAMHURST	a village	Imperial
Deadmans Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
DEADMAN'S GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
FOLE	a hamlet	Imperial
Hollington	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOLLINGTON	a hamlet	Imperial
Madcley Court	seat	Bartholomew
MADELEY-HOLME	a hamlet	Imperial
TEAN	two hamlets and a chapelry	Imperial
Tean, Upper	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
Tole	village	Bartholomew
Upper Tean	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew

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 Checkley 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	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
Upper Tean	0	3
Leigh	0	2
Beamhurst	0	2
Freehay	0	2
Croxden	1	2
Totmonslow	0	3
Bradley in the Moors	0	2
Field	0	2
Bramshall	0	2
Draycott in the Moors	0	3
Cresswell	0	2
Stramshall	0	2
Cheadle	1	2
Crakemarsh	0	1
Loxley	0	2
Gratwich	0	2
Alton	1	2
Forsbrook	0	2
Milwich	0	3
Fradswell	0	2