Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tanfield, West	parish	Bartholomew
West Tanfield		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Binscoe	village	Bartholomew
BINSCOE	a village	Imperial
Nosterfield	village	Bartholomew
NOSTERFIELD	a village	Imperial
Thornbrough	village	Bartholomew
THORNBROUGH	a village	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 West Tanfield 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	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	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
Binsoe	0	2
Nosterfield	0	2
Mickley	0	2
Sleningford	0	1
Thornbrough	0	2
East Tanfield	0	2
Burton upon Ure	0	2
Well	0	2
North Stainley	0	2
Snape	1	2
Howgrave	0	3
Nutwith and Roomer Common	0	1
Swinton	0	2
Sutton Howgrave	0	1
Norton Conyers	0	1
Sutton Grange	0	2
Kirklington	0	1
Carthorpe	0	2
Warthermarske	0	2
Azerley	0	2