Worthen, Shropshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Worthen township and village Bartholomew
WORTHEN a village and a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aston Pigot place Bartholomew
ASTON-PIGOTT a township Imperial
Aston Rogers place Bartholomew
ASTON-ROGERS a township Imperial
BING-WESTON Imperial
Binweston township Bartholomew
Brockton hamlet Bartholomew
BROCKTON a township Imperial
Bromlow place with school Bartholomew
BROMLOW a township Imperial
Bynweston hamlet Bartholomew
BYNWESTON a township Imperial
Grimmer hamlet Bartholomew
GRIMMER a township Imperial
Habberley Office hamlet Bartholomew
HABBERLEY-OFFICE a township Imperial
Hayes hamlet Bartholomew
HAYES a township Imperial
Heath, Nether and Upper 2 hamlets Bartholomew
Hope ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
HOPE a chapelry Imperial
LEIGH a township Imperial
LEIGHTON a township-chapelry Imperial
Meadowtown village Bartholomew
MEADOWTOWN a township Imperial
TRELYSTAN a chapelry Imperial
WALTON a township 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
Caus 0 2
Hope 0 2
Minsterley 0 2
Marton 0 2
Westbury 0 2
Rhos Goch 0 2
Winnington 0 2
Uppington 0 2
Middleton in Chirbury 0 2
Trelystan 0 2
Shelve 0 2
Wollaston 0 3
Halfway House 0 2
Middletown 0 2
Ackley 0 2
Cletterwood 0 2
Habberley 0 2
Cawrse 0 2
Stoney Stretton 0 1
Hope 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
WORTHEN 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.