Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wednesbury	parliamentary borough	Bartholomew

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 Wednesbury 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.
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	6
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	5
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	3
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	3
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol	2
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	2
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	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
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	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
Wood Green	0	1
Bescot	0	2
Pleck	0	2
Darlaston	9	2
Moxley	0	2
Ocker Hill	0	2
West Bromwich	3	3
Black Country	0	1
Horseley Heath	0	2
Princes End	0	2
Tipton	6	3
Bradley	1	2
Bentley	1	2
Walsall	15	2
Bilston	1	2
Willenhall	0	2
Portobello	0	1
Sandwell	0	1
Dudley Port	0	2
Tividale	0	2