Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Darlington	ward	Bartholomew
DARLINGTON	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a ward	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Archdeacon Newton	township	Bartholomew
ARCHDEACON-NEWTON	a township	Imperial
Blackwell	township	Bartholomew
BLACKWELL	a township	Imperial
Cockerton	township	Bartholomew
COCKERTON	a township	Imperial
OXENHALL	a hamlet	Imperial
Oxneyfeid (or Oxenleyfield)		Bartholomew
OXNEYFIELD	a hamlet	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 Darlington 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: Durham to Shropshire	4
George Head	Tees-side	4
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	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
Cockerton	0	2
Haughton le Skerne	0	2
Blackwell	0	2
Whessoe	0	2
Great Burdon	0	2
Archdeanon Newton	0	2
Oxneyfield	0	3
Morton Palms	0	2
Stapleton	0	2
Cleasby	0	2
Hurworth	0	2
Barmpton	0	2
Coatham Mundeville	0	2
Neasham	0	2
Brafferton	0	2
Sadberge	0	2
High Coniscliffe	0	3
Low Dinsdale	2	2
Manfield	0	2
Walworth	0	2