Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE, or Newcastle-under-Lyme	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	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 Newcastle under Lyme 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Staffordshire	3
William Adams	Tramp Life	2
William Adams	On Tramp	1
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	1
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	1
Thomas Pennant	Wybunbury to Darlaston	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
Knutton	0	2
Cross Heath	0	1
Silverdale	0	2
Wolstanton	1	2
Hope	0	2
Chesterton	1	2
Hartshill	0	2
Etruria	0	2
Keele	0	2
Clayton	0	2
Longport	0	2
Penkhull	0	2
Rushton Grange	0	1
Shelton	0	2
Cobridge	0	2
Burslem	3	2
Hanley	1	2
Halmer End	0	2
Butterton	0	2
Trent Vale	0	2