Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
EVESHAM a town 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 Evesham 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.
William Camden Worcestershire and Staffordshire 3
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol 3
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands 3
Charles Wesley 1750: Bristol and London 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 3
Charles Wesley May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall 2
Charles Wesley 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne 2
Arthur Young 1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham 2
William Camden The Division of Britaine 1
William Cobbett Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere 1
Charles Wesley 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
Celia Fiennes To Herefordshire 1
Celia Fiennes Another tour of the Midlands 1
John Wesley 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery 1
John Wesley 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War 1
Thomas Pennant Part II: Daventry to Northampton 1
Thomas Pennant June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding 1
Edwin Russell Sept. 2 to 6: South West Herefordshire 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 Hist. Gazetteer
Little Hampton 0 2
Bengeworth 2 2
Great Hampton 0 2
Aldington 0 2
Charlton 1 2
Wickhamford 0 2
Offenham 0 2
Hinton on the Green 0 3
Cropthorne 0 2
Badsey 0 2
Lenchwick 0 1
Norton 0 2
Netherton 0 2
Childs Wickham 0 3
Blackenhurst 0 2
Bretforton 0 1
Sedgeberrow 0 2
Aston Somerville 0 2
Middle Littleton 0 1
South Littleton 0 3