Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HEXHAM	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brideshill	place with public school	Bartholomew
Dalton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hencoats (or Hencotes)	district	Bartholomew
LOW-QUARTER	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 Hexham 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	5
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	2
George Head	Newcastle upon Tyne	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	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
Queens Cave	0	2
Hermitage	0	2
St John Lee	0	3
Hexhamshire	0	2
Anick	0	2
Acomb	0	2
Fallowfield	0	2
Dilston	2	2
Sandhoe	0	2
Whitley Chapel	0	2
Wall	0	2
St Oswald in Lee	0	1
Warden	0	2
Chesters	0	3
Newbrough	0	2
Chollerford	0	2
Corbridge	5	2
Slaley	0	2
Ryehill	0	1
Portgate	0	2