Harborne, Staffordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
LITTLETON-DREW, or LITTLETON-ST. ANDREW a parish Imperial
Littleton Drew, or St Andrew Littleton parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Gib hamlet Bartholomew
West Durnley hamlet Bartholomew

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
Alderton 0 2
Grittleton 0 2
Acton Turville 0 2
Luckington 0 2
Castle Combe 2 2
Leigh Delamere 0 2
Nettleton 0 2
Great Badminton 0 2
Yatton Keynell 0 2
Hullavington 0 2
West Kington 0 2
North Wraxall 0 3
Easton Piercy 0 2
Sherston 0 2
Sopworth 0 2
Tormarton 0 2
Slaughterford 0 2
Norton 0 2
Sherston Parva 0 2
Kington St Michael 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LITTLETON DREW 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).
LITTLETON DREW OR LITTLETON ST ANDREW John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LITTLETON DREW OR ST ANDREW LITTLETON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
LITTLETON ST ANDREW John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST ANDREW LITTLETON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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

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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.