Worcester, Worcestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BLOCKHOUSE an extra-parochial tract Imperial
Worcester parliamentary and municipal borough Bartholomew
WORCESTER Imperial
WORCESTER, BROMYARD, AND LEOMINSTER RAILWAY a railway 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 Worcester 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 12
William Cobbett Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire 6
William Cobbett Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere 6
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 5
Charles Wesley 1750: Bristol and London 3
Celia Fiennes To Herefordshire 3
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol 3
George Borrow Around Anglesey (2) 2
William Camden Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan 2
Celia Fiennes Another tour of the Midlands 2
Thomas Pennant August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East 2
George Borrow Festiniog 1
James Boswell October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull 1
William Camden The Division of Britaine 1
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland 1
William Gilpin London to Ross 1
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 1
John Wesley 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland 1
John Wesley 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life 1
Thomas Pennant Tamworth to Meriden 1
Thomas Pennant Northampton to Gothurst 1
Thomas Pennant Tyringham to Woburn 1
Thomas Pennant July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed 1
Thomas Pennant July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 1
Thomas Pennant September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh 1
Edwin Russell Oct. 11 to Nov. 1: Condition of Farm Labourers 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
Whistones 0 2
Bedwardine 0 4
Henwick 0 2
Barbourne 0 2
Boughton 0 2
Wick Episcopi 0 2
Rushwick 0 1
Claines 0 2
Whittington 0 2
Warndon 0 2
Broadheath 0 2
Fernhill Heath 0 2
Bevere 1 2
Spetchley 0 2
Hallow 0 2
Norton Juxta Kempsey 0 1
Hindlip 0 3
Hawford 0 2
Powick 1 2
Bredicot 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BLOCKHOUSE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CAER GUARANGON William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CAER GUORAUGON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CAER GUORCON William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CAER WRANGON William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
VIGORNIA William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WEGENACESTRE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WEOGARE CEASTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WEOGORNACEASTER John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WEORGANECEASTER John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WIGORNIA William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WIRE CEASTER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WORCESTER 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).
WORCESTER BROMYARD AND LEOMINSTER RAILWAY 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.