Evesham, Worcestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Evesham municipal borough and market town with railway station Bartholomew
EVESHAM a town 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 Evesham 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 3
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol 3
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands 3
Charles Wesley 1750: Bristol and London 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 3
Charles Wesley May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall 2
Charles Wesley 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne 2
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 2
William Camden The Division of Britaine 1
William Cobbett Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere 1
Charles Wesley 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Celia Fiennes To Herefordshire 1
Celia Fiennes Another tour of the Midlands 1
John Wesley 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery 1
John Wesley 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War 1
Thomas Pennant Part II: Daventry to Northampton 1
Thomas Pennant June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding 1
Edwin Russell Sept. 2 to 6: South West 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 Historical Gazetteer
Little Hampton 0 2
Bengeworth 2 2
Great Hampton 0 2
Aldington 0 2
Charlton 1 2
Wickhamford 0 2
Offenham 0 2
Hinton on the Green 0 3
Cropthorne 0 2
Badsey 0 2
Lenchwick 0 1
Norton 0 2
Netherton 0 2
Childs Wickham 0 3
Blackenhurst 0 2
Bretforton 0 1
Sedgeberrow 0 2
Aston Somerville 0 2
Middle Littleton 0 1
South Littleton 0 3

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Evesham. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
EATH HOME William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
EOVESHAM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ESHAM Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
ESHUM Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
EVERSHAM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
EVESHAM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.