Sedgley, Staffordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Sedgley town and parish Bartholomew
SEDGLEY a town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Brierley village Bartholomew
BRIERLEY a village Imperial
Coseley local government district and railway station Bartholomew
COSELEY a village and a chapelry Imperial
Cotwall End village Bartholomew
COTWALL-END a village Imperial
ETTINGSHALL a hamlet Imperial
GORNALL (Lower and Upper) two villages and two chapelries Imperial
Gornal, Lower ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Gornal, Upper ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Gospel End village Bartholomew
Upper Gornal ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Woodsetton village Bartholomew
WOODSETTON a village 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
Cotwall End 0 2
Lower Gornal 0 2
Upper Gornal 0 1
Woodsetton 0 2
Himley 0 2
Coseley 0 2
Penn 0 2
Deepfields 0 2
Ettingshall 0 2
Pensnett 1 2
Dudley 10 3
Wombourn 0 2
Blakenhall 0 1
Bradley 0 2
Hartshill 0 2
Princes End 0 2
Kingswinford 0 4
Brierley Hill 0 2
Kates Hill 0 2
Brockmoor 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
SEDGLEY 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).

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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.