Wellington, Shropshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Wellington market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
WELLINGTON a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a division Imperial
WELLINGTON AND DRAYTON RAILWAY a railway Imperial
WELLINGTON AND SEVERN JUNCTION RAILWAY a railway Imperial
Wellington (or Mid) Division parliamentary division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
ARLESTON a hamlet Imperial
Aston township Bartholomew
ASTON a township Imperial
HADLEY a village and a chapelry Imperial
Horsehay Common hamlet Bartholomew
Horton hamlet Bartholomew
HORTON a township Imperial
KETLEY a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
LAWLEY a chapelry Imperial
NEW DALE a hamlet Imperial
New Hadley hamlet Bartholomew
Walcot hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
WALCOTT a township, with a r station Imperial
WATLING-STREET a hamlet 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
South Bradford 0 2
Ketley 1 2
Wrockwardine 0 2
Hadley 0 2
Lawley 0 2
Little Wenlock 0 2
Wrekin 2 2
Eyton on the Weald Moors 0 2
Horton Near Wellington 0 2
Wombridge 0 2
Horsehay 0 2
Preston upon the Weald Moors 0 2
Oakengates 5 2
Wrockwardine Wood 0 2
Longdon upon Tern 0 2
Uppington 0 2
Malinslee 0 2
Priors Lee 0 2
Kynnersley 0 2
Dawley 2 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
WATLING TOWN 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).
WELLINGTON 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).
WELLINGTON AND DRAYTON RAILWAY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WELLINGTON AND SEVERN JUNCTION RAILWAY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WELLINGTON OR MID DIVISION 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:

  • 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.