Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castle Precincts	parish	Bartholomew
CASTLE-PRECINCTS	extra-parochial places	Imperial
DURHAM	a city and a district	Imperial
Durham College	parish	Bartholomew
DURHAM (Old)	a place	Imperial
Magdalen Place (or St Mary Magdalen)	township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broom	township	Bartholomew
BROOM	a township	Imperial
Broomside Village	colliery village	Bartholomew
Crossgate	township	Bartholomew
CROSSGATE	a township	Imperial
Elvet	township	Bartholomew
ELVET	a township	Imperial
SHINCLIFFE	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
SUNDERLAND-BRIDGE	a township	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 Durham 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.
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	15
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	10
George Borrow	Rheidol Valley	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	7
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	6
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	3
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	3
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	2
William Camden	Cumberland	1
William Camden	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 12th to 27th, 1826: Malmsbury to Worcestershire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
George Head	Tees-side	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
Thomas Pennant	In St Albans	1
Thomas Pennant	Enfield to London	1
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	1
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Maiden Castle	0	2
Crossgate	0	2
Elvet	0	2
Nevilles Cross	1	2
Maiden Bower	0	2
Houghall	0	2
Kepier	0	2
Shincliffe	1	2
Broom	0	2
Sherburn Hospital	0	1
Framwellgate	0	2
Belmont	0	1
Sunderland Bridge	0	2
Bearpark	2	1
Whitwell House	0	2
Ushaw Moor	0	2
Brandon	0	2
Sherburn	0	3
Croxdale	0	4
Kimblesworth	0	2