Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DROITWICH	a town, three parishes, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Droitwich (or Mid) Division		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 Droitwich 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
Thomas Pennant	Nantwich	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham 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
Salwarpe	0	4
Hadzor	0	2
Westwood	0	2
Martin Hussingtree	0	2
Hampton Lovett	0	2
Crutch	0	2
Dodderhill	0	2
Oddingley	0	2
Wychbold	0	1
Fernhill Heath	0	2
Hindlip	0	3
Doverdale	0	2
Claines	0	2
Hawford	0	2
Ombersley	0	2
Himbleton	0	2
Tibberton	0	2
Shell	0	2
Hanbury	0	2
Elmbridge	0	2