Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BIRMINGHAM	a division	Imperial
BIRMINGHAM		Imperial
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAYS		Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Birmingham.

Place	Type of entry	Source
GEORGE (St.)	a sub-district	Imperial
Ladywood	ecclesiastical district	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 Birmingham 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.
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	15
Karl Moritz	Chapter 11: Oxford to Derbyshire	10
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	8
George Borrow	Introduction; Norfolk to Chester	6
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk	4
George Borrow	Conclusion: Newport and Chepstow	3
Charles Wesley	Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester	3
William Adams	On Tramp	2
George Borrow	Llandovery	2
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	2
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	2
Robert Gammage	Gammage's first letter to the Chronicle	2
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	2
John Byng	A Tour in the Midlands, 1789: London to Biggleswade	1
John Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	1
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	1
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	1
George Head	Liverpool	1
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	1
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
Karl Moritz	Introduction	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford	1
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	1
Edwin Russell	Oct. 11 to Nov. 1: Condition of Farm Labourers	1
Edwin Russell	Nov. 26 to Dec. 7: Western Herefordshire	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
Ashted	0	2
Deritend	1	2
Aston Brook	0	2
Bordesley	0	2
Bloomsbury	0	2
Duddeston	0	1
Ladywood	0	2
Hockley	0	2
Aston	0	3
Balsall Heath	0	2
Lozells	0	2
Nechells	0	1
Edgbaston	0	2
Saltley	0	2
Small Heath	0	3
Washwood Heath	0	2
Moseley	0	2
Birchfield	0	2
Sparkbrook	0	2
Ward End	0	2