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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Gateshead. You may be able to find further references to Gateshead in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | GATESHEAD | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Gateshead.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BENSHAM | a chapelry | Imperial | Gateshead Fell | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | GATESHEAD-FELL | a chapelry | Imperial | Low Team | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
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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 Gateshead 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 | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 5 | William Camden | Northumberland | 2 | John Wesley | 1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs | 2 | Thomas Pennant | July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed | 2 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East | 1 | John Wesley | 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War | 1 |
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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 |
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Gateshead Fell | 0 | 2 |
Windy Nook | 0 | 2 |
Low Team | 0 | 1 |
Westgate | 0 | 2 |
Dunston | 0 | 4 |
Byker | 0 | 2 |
Fenham | 0 | 2 |
Heworth | 0 | 2 |
High Elswick | 0 | 1 |
Shieldfield | 0 | 1 |
Felling | 0 | 2 |
Eighton Banks | 0 | 2 |
Elswick | 0 | 2 |
Lamesley | 0 | 2 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 153 | 5 |
Ravensworth | 0 | 2 |
Benwell | 0 | 2 |
Kibblesworth | 0 | 2 |
Walker | 0 | 2 |
Jesmond | 0 | 2 |