Baschurch, Shropshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Baschurch parish and township with railway station Bartholomew
BASCHURCH a township, a parish, and a subdistrict Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Birch township Bartholomew
BIRCH a township Imperial
BOREATTON, or Bratton a township Imperial
Eyton hamlet Bartholomew
EYTON a township Imperial
Fennemere hamlet Bartholomew
FENNEMERE a township Imperial
MEREHOUSE, or MURHOUSE a township Imperial
Ness, Little township Bartholomew
NEWTOWN a township Imperial
WALFORD a township Imperial
Walford House seat Bartholomew
Weston Lullingfield ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
WESTON-LULLINGFIELD a chapelry Imperial
YEATON 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
Weston Lullingfield 0 2
Boreatton 0 2
Little Ness 0 2
Petton 2 2
Great Ness 1 2
Ruyton Xi Towns 0 2
Fitz 0 2
Myddle 0 2
Preston Gubbals 0 2
Leaton 0 2
Nesscliffe 0 3
Pimhill 0 2
Loppington 0 2
Hordley 0 2
Cockshutt 0 2
Broughton 0 2
Kynaston 0 2
Shrawardine 1 3
West Felton 0 3
Montford 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BASCHURCH 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.