Munslow, Shropshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Munslow hundred Bartholomew
Munslow parish Bartholomew
MUNSLOW a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aston township Bartholomew
ASTON a township Imperial
Bach Mill hamlet Bartholomew
BACH-MILL a hamlet Imperial
Broadstone locality Bartholomew
BROADSTONE a township Imperial
Hollaway hamlet Bartholomew
HOLLAWAY a ville Imperial
HUNGERFORD a township Imperial
MILLICHOPE a township Imperial
Millichope Hall seat Bartholomew
POSTON (Lower) a township Imperial
THONGLANDS a township Imperial
Topley village Bartholomew
TOPLEY a village Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Diddlebury 0 2
Topley 0 2
Tugford 0 2
Thonglands 0 1
Eaton under Haywood 0 2
Holdgate 2 3
Heath 0 2
Rushbury 0 2
Cold Weston 0 3
Clee St Margaret 0 2
Westhope 0 2
Abdon 0 2
Skirmage 0 1
Wall 0 1
Shipton 1 2
Hope Bowdler 0 2
Acton Scott 0 2
Hopton Cangeford 0 2
Culmington 0 2
Stanton Long 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
MUNSLOW John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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.