Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Bobbington, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Bobbington in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Halfpenny Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
HALFPENNY GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bobbington like this:

BOBBINGTON, a parish in the district of Wolverhampton, and counties of Stafford and Salop; 3½ miles W of the river Stour and the Stafford and Birmingham canal, 4½ miles E by N of Hampton-Loade r. station, and 8 WNW of Stourbridge. It includes the hamlet of Halfpenny-Green; and its Post Town is Enville, under Stourbridge. Acres, 2,676. Real property, £4,130. Pop., 431. Houses, 87. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £97. Patron, ...

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W. Whitmore, Esq. The church is good. An endowed school has £42, and other charities £31.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Bobbington by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Enville	0	2
Claverley	0	2
Swindon	0	2
Tuckhill	0	1
Trysull	0	2
Seisdon	0	3
Woodford Grange	0	2
Ashwood	0	2
Wombourn	0	2
Stourton	0	2
Quatt	0	2
Rudge	0	2
Alveley	0	2
Kinver	0	3
Himley	0	2
Romsley	0	2
Brimstree	0	2
Worfield	0	2
Kingswinford	0	4
Hampton Loade	0	2