Worfield, Shropshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Worfield parish Bartholomew
WORFIELD a village, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ackleton place Bartholomew
ACKLETON a township Imperial
Allscot township Bartholomew
ALLSCOT a township Imperial
Artlebury place Bartholomew
ARTLEBURY a township Imperial
BARNSLEY a township Imperial
Batchpool township Bartholomew
BATCHPOOL a township Imperial
Bentley locality Bartholomew
BENTLEY a township Imperial
Bradney locality Bartholomew
BRADNEY a township Imperial
Bromley place Bartholomew
BROMLEY a township Imperial
Burcott place Bartholomew
BURCOTT a township Imperial
Catstree place Bartholomew
CATSTREE a township Imperial
Chesterton hamlet Bartholomew
CHESTERTON a township Imperial
Cranmere place Bartholomew
CRANMERE a township Imperial
Ewdness hamlet Bartholomew
EWDNESS a township Imperial
Ferrer Gate hamlet Bartholomew
FERRER GATE a township Imperial
HALLAN a township Imperial
Hilton hamlet and seat Bartholomew
Hoccom hamlet Bartholomew
HOCCOM a township Imperial
KINSLOW a township Imperial
LOWE (THE) a township Imperial
NEWTON a township Imperial
OLDINGTON a township Imperial
PATMARSH a township Imperial
RINDLEFORD a township Imperial
ROUGHTON a township Imperial
ROWLEY a township Imperial
STANLOW a township Imperial
STAPLEFORD a township Imperial
SWANCOTT a township Imperial
WINSCOTT a township Imperial
WOODSIDE a township Imperial
WYKIN a township 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
Badger 0 2
Claverley 0 2
Rudge 0 2
Stockton 0 2
Astley Abbotts 0 3
Bridgnorth 5 2
Brimstree 0 2
Quatford 0 2
Beckbury 0 2
Patshull 1 2
Eardington 0 2
Tasley 0 2
Oldbury 0 2
Ryton 0 2
Linley 0 2
Pattingham 0 2
Quatt 0 2
Sutton Maddock 0 2
Bobbington 0 1
Trysull 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
WORFIELD 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.