Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Stanhope	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cowshill	village	Bartholomew
Eastgate	village	Bartholomew
Forest Quarter	district	Bartholomew
FOREST-QUARTER	a township	Imperial
FROSTERLEY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
HEATHERYCLEUGH	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Heathery Clough	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
Ireshopeburn	village	Bartholomew
JOHN (ST.)	a sub-district	Imperial
Northgate Fell	moor	Bartholomew
PARK-QUARTER	a township	Imperial
Rookhope	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
ROOKHOPE	a chapelry	Imperial
St John Weardale	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
Weardale St John	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
WEARDALE-ST. JOHN	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Wearhead	hamlet	Bartholomew
WEAR-HEAD	a hamlet	Imperial
Westgate	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WESTGATE	a chapelry	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 Stanhope 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.
George Head	Newcastle upon Tyne	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
Wear Valley	0	2
Newlandside	0	1
Frosterley	0	2
Eastgate	0	2
Rookhope	0	2
Park Quarter	0	1
Wolsingham	1	2
Muggleswick	0	2
Westgate	0	2
Hunstanworth	0	3
Edmondbyers	0	3
Weardale St John	0	2
South Bedburn	0	2
Newbiggin	0	2
Middleton in Teesdale	0	4
Thornley	0	2
Tow Law	0	2
Eggleston	1	2
Castleside	0	2
Newbiggin	1	3