Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Heddon on the Wall	parish, township, and village with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Closehouse	hamlet and seat	Bartholomew
Eachwick	township	Bartholomew
EACHWICK	a township	Imperial
Frenchmen's House	hamlet	Bartholomew
HEDDON (EAST)	a township	Imperial
Heddon, West	township	Bartholomew
Houghton and Close House	township	Bartholomew
HOUGHTON AND CLOSEHOUSE	a township	Imperial
Whitchester	township	Bartholomew
WHITCHESTER	a township	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 Heddon on the Wall 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	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
Houghton	0	2
West Heddon	0	2
Rudchester	1	2
Closehouse	0	1
East Heddon	0	2
Throckley	0	2
Whitchester	1	2
Wylam	0	2
Eachwick	0	2
Crawbrook	0	2
Darras Hall	0	2
Cheeseburn Grange	0	2
High Callerton	0	2
Wallbottle	0	2
Horsley By Ovingham	7	2
North Dissington	0	2
Ryton	1	4
Harlow Hill	0	2
Newburn	0	3
Little Callerton	0	2