Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HARTLEPOOL	a seaport town, a parish, and a subdistrict	Imperial
HARTLEPOOL (WEST), RAILWAY	a system of railway	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 Hartlepool 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.
George Head	Durham Coast	9
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	4
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	2
George Head	North Riding	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	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
West Hartlepool	0	2
Stranton	0	2
Middleton	0	3
Throston	0	2
Seaton	0	2
Brierton	0	2
Dalton Piercy	0	2
Claxton	1	2
Greatham	1	2
Hart	0	2
Elwick	0	4
Thorpe Bulmer	0	2
Newton Bewley	0	2
Nesbitt	0	2
Cowpen Bewley	0	2
Sheraton	0	3
Monk Hesleden	0	2
Billingham	0	2
Hulam	0	2
Coatham	0	3