Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wark	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 Wark.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Latterford	hamlet	Bartholomew
Shitlington, High and Low	2 townships	Bartholomew
SHITLINGTON (High and Low)	two townships	Imperial
Warksburn	township	Bartholomew
WARKSBURN	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 Wark 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	2
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	1
William Camden	Cumberland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and 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
Roses Bower	0	2
Warksburn	0	2
Tynedale	2	2
Shitlington	0	2
Chirdon	0	2
Simonburn	0	2
Leemailing	0	2
Charlton	0	6
Henshaw	0	2
Greystead	0	2
Housesteads	0	2
Carraw	0	2
Haughton	0	2
Nook	0	2
Redesmouth	0	2
Bellingham	0	2
Nunwick	0	2
Thorngrafton	0	2
Smalesmouth	0	2
Thorneyburn	0	2