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The following appear as names for Droitwich. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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DROITWICH | 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:
These names were used for units associated with Droitwich. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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ANDREW ST AND ST MARY | Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
DROITWICH | Ancient District (Borough) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 760. |
Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) | |
Constituency (PBCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. | |
Local Government District (MB) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 760. | |
Local Government District (RD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 763. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 761. | |
Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. | |
Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 872. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 762. | |
Sanitary District (USD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 762. | |
DROITWICH MALBOROUGH IN THE VINES | Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP) | 1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 1, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places'. |
DROITWICH ST ANDREW | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. | |
DROITWICH ST ANDREW WITH ST MARY WITTON | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. |
DROITWICH ST MARY DE WITTON | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. |
Parish-level Unit (AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. | |
DROITWICH ST NICHOLAS | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. | |
DROITWICH ST PETER | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. |
Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 477. | |
E431131 | Local Government District (MB) | |
E431141 | Local Government District (RD) | |
LAND COMMON TO DROITWICH ST ANDREW AND DROITWICH ST PETER THE WRANGLING DIVISION | Parish-level Unit (ExP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 483. |
LANDS RATED TO DROITWICH ST ANDREW AND ST PETER WRANGLING DIVISION | Parish-level Unit (ExP) | 1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 12, 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'. |
MARLBOROUGH IN THE VINES | Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 484. |
NICHOLAS ST | Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
PETER ST | Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
ST ANDREW | Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. |
ST NICHOLAS | Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. |
ST PETER | Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. |
THE WRANGLING DIVISION LAND COMMON TO THE CPS OF ST ANDREW AND ST PETER | Parish-level Unit (ExP) | 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Intercensal Changes in Boundaries, 1921-31'. |
WORCESTERSHIRE DROITWICH | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WORCESTERSHIRE MID | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WORCESTERSHIRE MID OR DROITWICH | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WRANGLING DIVISION | Parish-level Unit (ExP) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'. |
WRANGLING DIVISION COMMON TO ST ANDREW AND ST PETER | Parish-level Unit (ExP) | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Droitwich, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Droitwich, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Droitwich, in Wychavon and Worcestershire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/519/names
Date accessed: 19th April 2024