Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Polesworth	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dordon	hamlet	Bartholomew
DORDON	a hamlet	Imperial
FREAZLEY-WITH-HALLEND	a hamlet	Imperial
Hall End	hamlet	Bartholomew
HALL-END	a hamlet	Imperial
Pooley Hall	old mansion	Bartholomew
Warton	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
WARTON, or Waverton	a chapelry	Imperial
WILNECOTE	a township	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 Polesworth 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	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	1
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	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
Dordon	0	2
Warton	0	2
Shuttington	0	2
Grendon	0	2
Amington	0	3
Baddesley Ensor	0	2
Wilnecote	0	2
Glascote	0	3
Seckington	3	2
Austrey	0	2
Orton on the Hill	0	2
Tamworth	24	5
Merevale	2	2
Baxterley	0	2
Sheepy Magna	0	2
Dosthill	0	2
Statfold	0	2
Mythe	0	1
Newton Regis	0	2
Thorpe Constantine	1	2