Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Whickham	manufacturing town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dunston	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
Fellside	hamlet	Bartholomew
FELLSIDE	a township	Imperial
LOWSIDE, or LOWHAND	a township	Imperial
SWALLWELL	a township	Imperial
Swalwell	village with railway station	Bartholomew

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 Whickham 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.
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	3
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	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
Swalwell	0	2
Marley Hill	0	1
Gibside	0	2
Dunston	0	4
Winlaton	0	2
Ravensworth	0	2
Low Team	0	1
Scotswood	0	2
Burnopfield	0	2
Lamesley	0	2
Elswick	0	2
Benwell	0	2
Stella	0	2
Tanfield	5	2
High Elswick	0	1
Fenham	0	2
Sugley	0	2
Kibblesworth	0	2
Gateshead	9	2
Westgate	0	2