Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ranton (or Ronton)	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broughall	hamlet	Bartholomew
Compton, Long	hamlet	Bartholomew
COMPTON (Long)	a hamlet	Imperial
Hextells	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEXTELLS	a hamlet	Imperial
Parknook	hamlet	Bartholomew
PARK-NOOK	a hamlet	Imperial
Woodside	hamlet	Bartholomew
WOODSIDE	a hamlet	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 Ranton 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
Ranton Abbey	0	2
Ellenhall	0	2
Seighford	0	2
Haughton	0	2
Derrington	0	2
Cowley	1	2
Worston	0	2
Coton	0	1
Gnosall	1	2
Cresswell	0	2
Horseley	0	2
Tillington	0	2
Castle Church	0	2
Bradley	0	2
Whitgreave	0	2
Chebsey	1	2
Norton Bridge	0	2
Oulton	0	2
Norbury	0	2
Coppenhall	0	2