Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
All Saints	parish and township	Bartholomew
JOHN-NEWCASTLE (ST.)	a parish	Imperial
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	a town, four parishes, and a district	Imperial
Newcastle upon Tyne, All Saints, St Andrew, St John, and St Nicholas		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Benwell	township	Bartholomew
BENWELL	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
CRAMLINGTON	a chapelry	Imperial
RIDING	a township	Imperial
SEGHILL, or Sedgehill	a village and a township	Imperial
Westgate	township	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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	9
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	9
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	8
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	7
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	6
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	6
John Wesley	1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs	6
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	6
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	6
William Camden	Northumberland	5
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	5
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	5
George Head	Newcastle upon Tyne	5
Feargus O'Connor	O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839	5
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	4
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	4
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	3
Thomas Pennant	September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire	3
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	2
James Boswell	November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	2
Robert Gammage	Travelling in the north in 1842	2
Robert Gammage	Ayrshire and Renfrewshire	2
Robert Gammage	Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections	2
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	2
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	2
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	2
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
James Boswell	Introduction	1
James Boswell	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	1
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	1
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	July 8 - Aug. 13, 1754: Norfolk	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire	1
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	1
George Head	Introduction	1
George Head	Selby and Goole	1
George Head	Hull	1
George Head	East Riding	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	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
Jesmond	0	2
Shieldfield	0	1
Fenham	0	2
Westgate	0	2
High Elswick	0	1
Heaton	0	2
Elswick	0	2
Benwell	0	2
South Gosforth	0	1
Gosforth	1	2
Byker	0	2
Coxlodge	0	2
Tyne	0	2
Low Team	0	1
Dunston	0	4
Kenton	0	2
Little Benton	0	2
Walker	0	2
Gateshead	9	2
Fawdon	0	2