Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Horsley	township	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Horsley	ecclesiastical district and hamlet	Bartholomew
Horsley, Long	parish	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 Horsley By Ovingham 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. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	2
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	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
Spital	0	3
Whittle	0	2
Nafferton	2	3
Harlow Hill	0	2
Ovington	0	2
Whitchester	1	2
Ovingham	0	2
Welton	0	2
Masters Close	0	2
Nesbitt	0	2
Rudchester	1	2
Wylam	0	2
Stelling	0	2
Bearl	0	2
Eltringham	0	2
Houghton	0	2
Ouston	0	2
Cheeseburn Grange	0	2
Prudhoe	3	3
West Heddon	0	2