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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Kidderminster. You may be able to find further references to Kidderminster in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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KIDDERMINSTER | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
Kidderminster Foreign | township | Bartholomew |
KIDDERMINSTER-FOREIGN | a division of Kidderminster parish | Imperial |
Kidderminster Old Borough | township | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Kidderminster.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Commerton | hamlet | Bartholomew |
COMMERTON, or Comberton | a hamlet | Imperial |
DUNCLENT | a hamlet | Imperial |
Eyemore | hamlet | Bartholomew |
EYEMORE | a hamlet | Imperial |
Franche | hamlet | Bartholomew |
FRANCHE | a hamlet | Imperial |
Hircott | hamlet | Bartholomew |
HIRCOTT | a hamlet | Imperial |
Hoarstone | hamlet | Bartholomew |
HOARSTONE | a hamlet | Imperial |
LICKHILL | a hamlet | Imperial |
MITTON (LOWER) | a chapelry | Imperial |
Mitton, Lower, with Stourport | township | Bartholomew |
NETHERTON | a hamlet | Imperial |
PUXTON | a hamlet | Imperial |
SEVERN VALLEY railway | a railway | Imperial |
Trimpley | curacy | Bartholomew |
Wannerton | hamlet | Bartholomew |
WANNERTON | a hamlet | Imperial |
Wribbenhall | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
WRIBBENHALL | a chapelry | Imperial |
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 Kidderminster 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. |
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William Camden | Worcestershire and Staffordshire | 3 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales | 2 |
Charles Wesley | Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol | 1 |
Celia Fiennes | Another tour of the Midlands | 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 |
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Wyre Forest | 2 | 1 |
Wribbenhall | 0 | 2 |
Stone | 0 | 2 |
Wolverley | 0 | 2 |
Cookley | 0 | 2 |
Trimpley | 0 | 2 |
Upper Mitton | 0 | 2 |
Stourport on Severn | 0 | 2 |
Lower Mitton | 0 | 3 |
Churchill | 0 | 2 |
Dowles | 0 | 2 |
Bewdley | 6 | 3 |
Hartlebury | 1 | 2 |
Ribbesford | 0 | 2 |
Chaddesley Corbett | 1 | 2 |
Upper Arley | 0 | 3 |
Broome | 0 | 2 |
Areley Kings | 0 | 2 |
Rushock | 0 | 2 |
Kinver | 0 | 3 |