Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HALTWHISTLE	a town, a township, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bellister	township	Bartholomew
BELLISTER	a township	Imperial
BELTINGHAM	a chapelry	Imperial
BLENKINSOP	a township	Imperial
Blenkinsopp	township	Bartholomew
Coanwood	township	Bartholomew
COANWOOD	a township	Imperial
Featherstone	township and railway station	Bartholomew
FEATHERSTONE	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Garbutt Hill	hamlet	Bartholomew
Glenwhett	hamlet	Bartholomew
GLENWHETT	a hamlet	Imperial
Greenhead	village with railway station	Bartholomew
GREENHEAD	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Hartleyburn	township	Bartholomew
HARTLEY-BURN	a township	Imperial
Henshaw	township	Bartholomew
HENSHAW	a township	Imperial
Melkridge	township and village	Bartholomew
MELKRIDGE	a township	Imperial
PLAINMELLOR	a township	Imperial
Plenmeller (or Plainmellor)	township	Bartholomew
Ridley	township	Bartholomew
RIDLEY	a township	Imperial
Thirlwall	township	Bartholomew
THIRLWALL	a township	Imperial
Thorngrafton	township	Bartholomew
THORNGRAFTON	a township	Imperial
Wall Town	township	Bartholomew
WALLTOWN	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 Haltwhistle 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	3
Robert Gammage	Travelling in the north in 1842	1
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
Melkridge	0	2
Wall Town	0	2
Bellister	0	2
Plenmeller	0	3
Carvoran	0	2
Glenwhett	0	2
Blenkinsopp	1	2
Greenhead	0	2
Featherstone	1	2
Henshaw	0	2
Thirlwall	3	2
Bardon Mill	0	2
Greenscheles Cleugh	0	2
Ridley	1	2
Thorngrafton	0	2
Beltingham	0	2
Coanwood	0	2
Gilsland	1	2
Housesteads	0	2
Lambley	1	2