Descriptive gazetteer entries
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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
Newcastle upon Tyne 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 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland
|
9 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle
|
9 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham
|
8 |
John
Wesley |
1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles
|
7 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall
|
6 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire
|
6 |
John
Wesley |
1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs
|
6 |
John
Wesley |
1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery
|
6 |
Thomas
Pennant |
July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed
|
6 |
William
Camden |
Northumberland
|
5 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle
|
5 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north
|
5 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland
|
5 |
George
Head |
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
5 |
Feargus
O'Connor |
O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839
|
5 |
William
Camden |
Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East
|
4 |
John
Wesley |
1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness
|
4 |
John
Wesley |
1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days
|
4 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City
|
3 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire
|
3 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland
|
3 |
Thomas
Pennant |
September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire
|
3 |
James
Boswell |
October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh
|
2 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk
|
2 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex
|
2 |
Robert
Gammage |
Travelling in the north in 1842
|
2 |
Robert
Gammage |
Ayrshire and Renfrewshire
|
2 |
Robert
Gammage |
Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners
|
2 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Appendix VIII: Itinerary
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
Introduction
|
1 |
James
Boswell |
August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen
|
1 |
William
Camden |
Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex
|
1 |
William
Cobbett |
Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
July 8 - Aug. 13, 1754: Norfolk
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
Wiltshire and Dorset
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1698 Tour: Durham to Shropshire
|
1 |
Robert
Gammage |
Touring central Scotland
|
1 |
George
Head |
Introduction
|
1 |
George
Head |
Selby and Goole
|
1 |
George
Head |
Hull
|
1 |
George
Head |
East Riding
|
1 |
John
Wesley |
1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People
|
1 |
John
Wesley |
1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War
|
1 |