Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING	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 Houghton le Spring.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Biddick, South	township	Bartholomew
BIDDICK (South)	a township	Imperial
Bourn Moor	township	Bartholomew
BOURN-MOOR	a township	Imperial
Cocken	township	Bartholomew
COCKEN	a township	Imperial
Coxgreen	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
EPPLETON (Great)	a township	Imperial
Eppleton, Great and Little	2 townships	Bartholomew
EPPLETON (Little)	a township	Imperial
HERRINGTON (EAST and MIDDLE)	a township	Imperial
Herrington, New	village	Bartholomew
Herrington, West	township	Bartholomew
Hetton le Hole	township and village	Bartholomew
Moorhouse	township	Bartholomew
MOORHOUSE	a township	Imperial
Moorsley	township	Bartholomew
Morton Grange	township	Bartholomew
MORTON-GRANGE	a township	Imperial
NEWBOTTLE	a village and a town-ship chapelry	Imperial
New Penshaw	village	Bartholomew
Offerton	township	Bartholomew
OFFERTON	a township	Imperial
Old Penshaw	village	Bartholomew
PAINSHAW, Penshaw, or Pensher	a village	Imperial
Philadelphia	hamlet	Bartholomew
Rainton, East	ecclesiastical district and township	Bartholomew
RAINTON (East)	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Rainton, West	ecclesiastical district and township	Bartholomew
RAINTON (West)	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Shiney Row	village	Bartholomew
SHINEY-ROW	a hamlet	Imperial
Warden Law	township	Bartholomew
WARDEN-LAW	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Newbottle	0	2
West Herrington	0	2
Shiney Row	0	2
Chilton Moor	0	1
Fence Houses	0	2
Herrington	0	2
Burnmoor	0	4
Penshaw	0	4
Morton Grange	0	2
South Biddick	2	2
Warden Law	0	2
East Rainton	0	3
Offerton	0	2
Fatfield	0	1
Lambton	0	2
Silksworth	0	2
Rainton	0	1
Little Lumley	1	3
Great Eppleton	0	2
Hetton	0	4