Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BAMBROUGH, or Bamborough	a village, a town ship, a parish, and a ward	Imperial
Bamburgh	ward	Bartholomew
Bamburgh	coastal parish and township	Bartholomew
Bamburgh Castle	township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Adderstone	township	Bartholomew
Beadnell	township	Bartholomew
Beadnell St Ellen	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Bradford	township	Bartholomew
Budle	township	Bartholomew
Burton	township	Bartholomew
Elford	coastal township	Bartholomew
Fleetham	township	Bartholomew
Fowbery	hamlet	Bartholomew
Glororum	town	Bartholomew
Hoppen	township	Bartholomew
Lucker	township and railway station	Bartholomew
Mousen	township	Bartholomew
Newham	township and railway station	Bartholomew
Newstead	township	Bartholomew
Ratchwood	township	Bartholomew
Sea Houses	village	Bartholomew
Shoreston	coastal township	Bartholomew
Spindleston	township	Bartholomew
Sunderland, North	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Swinhoe	township	Bartholomew
Tughall	township	Bartholomew
Warenford	township	Bartholomew
Warenton	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 Bamburgh 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	Northumberland	4
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	4
William Camden	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
Thomas Pennant	Ampthill to Luton	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
Hoppen	0	2
Bradford	0	2
Lucker	0	2
Burton	0	2
Newham	0	2
Glororum	0	2
Elford	0	2
Spindlestone	0	2
Fleetham	0	2
Shoreston	0	2
Ratchwood	0	2
Adderstone	0	2
Budle	0	2
Outchester	0	2
Mousen	0	2
Monks House	0	1
North Sunderland	0	3
Chathill	0	2
Beadnell	0	2
Easington	0	4