Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BARNARD-CASTLE	a town, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict	Imperial

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 Barnard Castle 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	2
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	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
Startforth	0	2
Egglestone Abbey	0	3
Westwick	0	2
Stainton	0	3
Boldron	0	2
Rokeby	0	2
Marwood	0	2
Brignall	0	2
Streatlam	0	1
Greta Bridge	0	2
Whorlton	0	2
Cleatlam	0	2
Wycliffe	0	2
Barningham	0	2
Gainford	0	2
Winston	0	2
Scargill	0	2
Langleydale	0	2
Staindrop	4	2
Teesdale	0	2