Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
LEAMINGTON a town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial
Leamington (Leamington Priors, or Royal Leamington Spa) mun. bor., par. Bartholomew
Royal Leamington Spa, or LEAMINGTON Bartholomew

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 Royal Leamington Spa 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.
George Borrow Introduction; Norfolk to Chester 3
Edwin Russell Nov. 26 to Dec. 7: Western Herefordshire 3
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 1
Edwin Russell Sept. 28 to Oct. 2: Great Risington to Winchcombe 1
Edwin Russell Oct. 11 to Nov. 1: Condition of Farm Labourers 1
Edwin Russell Nov. 6 to 8: Wellington Heath and Bishops Frome 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
Lillington 0 2
Milverton 0 2
Emscote 0 2
Cubbington 0 2
Guys Cliffe 2 2
Whitnash 0 2
Radford Semele 0 3
Warwick 28 2
Leek Wootton 0 2
Offchurch 1 2
Ashow 0 2
Bishops Tachbrook 1 2
Weston under Wetherley 0 2
Stareton 0 2
Hunningham 0 2
Barford 0 2
Ufton 0 2
Wappenbury 0 2
Budbrooke 0 2
Bubbenhall 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Royal Leamington Spa. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
LEAMINGTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
George Borrow Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery (Oxford, Mississippi, 1996).
Edwin Russell Reports in the Labourers' Union Chronicle (Leamington Spa, 1872-3).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LEAMINGTON LEAMINGTON PRIORS OR ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
LEMINGTON William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA OR LEAMINGTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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