Audley, Staffordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Audley parish and township with railway station Bartholomew
AUDLEY 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 Audley.

Place Type of entry Source
Bignall End township Bartholomew
Eardley End village Bartholomew
Halmer End mining hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
HALMER-END a liberty Imperial
KIDSGROVE a village Imperial
Knowl End hamlet Bartholomew
KNOWL-END a township Imperial
SHALEY-BROOK a hamlet Imperial
Talke (or Talk-o'-th'-Hill) ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
TALK-O'-TH'-HILL a township-chapelry, with a village 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 Audley 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.
Thomas Pennant Wybunbury to Darlaston 3

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
Halmer End 0 2
Bignall End 0 2
Knowl End 0 2
Talke 1 2
Balterley 0 2
Wolstanton 1 2
Silverdale 0 2
Alsager 0 2
Ravenscliffe 0 1
Betley 1 2
Harecastle 2 2
Chesterton 1 2
Knutton 0 2
Church Lawton 4 2
Newcastle under Lyme 10 2
Keele 0 2
Barthomley 0 2
Cross Heath 0 1
Goldenhill 0 3
Sandyford 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
AUDELEY Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
AUDLEY 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.