A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Witton Junction like this:
WITTON-JUNCTION, a r. station, with telegraph, in Durham; on the Northeastern system, at the forking of the lines toward respectively Stanhope and Rowley, 3½ miles WNW of Bishop-Auckland.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Witton Junction by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Witton le Wear | 1 | 2 |
| Witton Park | 0 | 1 |
| Hunwick | 0 | 3 |
| Newton Cap | 0 | 2 |
| Escomb | 0 | 2 |
| Helmington | 0 | 2 |
| Etherley | 0 | 3 |
| Helmington Row | 0 | 2 |
| Fir Tree | 0 | 2 |
| Sunnybrow | 0 | 1 |
| North Bedburn | 0 | 2 |
| Pollards Land | 0 | 2 |
| Newfield | 0 | 2 |
| Auckland St Andrew | 0 | 2 |
| Binchester | 3 | 2 |
| Bishop Auckland | 1 | 4 |
| Hamsterley | 0 | 2 |
| West Auckland | 0 | 3 |
| Byers Green | 0 | 2 |
| Harperley | 0 | 2 |