Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Farne Islands		Bartholomew
Fern Islands (or Staples)	group of 17 islets and rocks (forming a township)	Bartholomew
Staples, The		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 Farne Islands 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.
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	2

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
Longstone	0	2
Monks House	0	1
Shoreston	0	2
North Sunderland	0	3
Burton	0	2
Budle	0	2
Glororum	0	2
Elford	0	2
Spindlestone	0	2
Fleetham	0	2
Beadnell	0	2
Bradford	0	2
Bamburgh	7	5
Ross	0	2
Outchester	0	2
Hoppen	0	2
Swinhoe	0	2
Easington	0	4
Newham	0	2
Tughall	0	2