Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ryton	town, parish, and township	Bartholomew
Ryton Woodside	township	Bartholomew
RYTON-WOODSIDE	a township	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broomyholme	hamlet	Bartholomew
Crawcrook	township	Bartholomew
CRAWCROOK	a township	Imperial
Greenside	village	Bartholomew
Stella	township and village	Bartholomew

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 Ryton 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.
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	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
Greenside	0	1
Crawbrook	0	2
Stella	0	2
Closehouse	0	1
Blaydon	4	2
Wylam	0	2
Winlaton	0	2
Throckley	0	2
Houghton	0	2
Dukes Hagg	0	2
Newburn	0	3
Sugley	0	2
Chopwell	0	2
Heddon on the Wall	1	2
Wallbottle	0	2
West Denton	0	2
Rudchester	1	2
Prudhoe	3	3
Gibside	0	2
East Heddon	0	2