Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Upton railway station Bartholomew
Upton on Severn market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
UPTON-UPON-SEVERN a small town, a parish, 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 Upton upon Severn 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
William Cobbett Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire 1
Celia Fiennes Another tour of the Midlands 1
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 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
Ripple 0 2
Earls Croome 0 3
Holdfast 0 2
Hill Croome 0 3
Queenhill 0 2
Hanley Castle 1 2
Severn Stoke 1 2
Longdon 1 2
Strensham 1 2
Croome Dabitot 0 2
Welland 0 2
Twyning 0 3
Defford 0 2
Bushley 0 2
Guarlford 0 2
Castlemorton 0 3
Pirton 0 2
Barnards Green 0 2
Birtsmorton 0 2
Malvern Wells 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Upton upon Severn. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
UPTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
William Cobbett Rural Rides (Letchworth: Temple Press, 1932).
Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
UPTON ON SEVERN John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
UPTON UPON SEVERN John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

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  • 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.