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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hexham. You may be able to find further references to Hexham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HEXHAM | a town, a township, 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 Hexham.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Brideshill | place with public school | Bartholomew | Dalton | hamlet | Bartholomew | Hencoats (or Hencotes) | district | Bartholomew | LOW-QUARTER | a township | Imperial |
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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 Hexham 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 | Northumberland | 5 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East | 2 | George Head | Newcastle upon Tyne | 2 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle | 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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Queens Cave | 0 | 2 |
Hermitage | 0 | 2 |
St John Lee | 0 | 3 |
Hexhamshire | 0 | 2 |
Anick | 0 | 2 |
Acomb | 0 | 2 |
Fallowfield | 0 | 2 |
Dilston | 2 | 2 |
Sandhoe | 0 | 2 |
Whitley Chapel | 0 | 2 |
Wall | 0 | 2 |
St Oswald in Lee | 0 | 1 |
Warden | 0 | 2 |
Chesters | 0 | 3 |
Newbrough | 0 | 2 |
Chollerford | 0 | 2 |
Corbridge | 5 | 2 |
Slaley | 0 | 2 |
Ryehill | 0 | 1 |
Portgate | 0 | 2 |