Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wooler	small market town and parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Fenton	hamlet	Bartholomew
FENTON	a township	Imperial
WOOLER-HAUGH-HEAD	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 Wooler 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 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	3
William Camden	Northumberland	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
Glendale	0	2
Humbleton	0	3
Akeld	0	2
Doddington	0	2
Ewart	0	2
Coupland	0	4
Fenton	0	2
Nesbit	0	2
Middleton Hall	0	2
Yeavering	2	2
Lanton	0	2
Fowberry	0	2
North Middleton	0	2
Branxton	0	2
Milfield	2	2
Lilburn	0	3
Broomridge	0	2
Newtown	0	2
South Middleton	0	2
Earle	0	3