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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "HORSLEY BY ELSDON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  DURHAM	County Durham	Horsley, Mitford, and Woodhorn; and the p. curacies of Heyburn, Nether-Whitton, Cambe, Ulgham, Widdrington, Horton, New-biggen, and Widdington. The deanery of Norham contains the rectory of Ford; the vicarages of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Branxton, and Norham; and the p. curacies of Ancroft, Scremerston, Cornhill, Carham, -Holy-Island, Kyloe, Lowick, and Tweedmouth. The deanery of Rothbury contains the rectories of Elsdon	Imperial
  ELSDON	Northumberland	Elsdon Castle was built in the time of Henry III., by David, king of Scotland; presents, on its front, the arms of the Umfravilles; is a strong tower, with circular stair-case at one corner; was once the residence of Dr. Dutens, the editor of Leibnitz; and is now the parsonage house. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacies of Horsley	Imperial
  Horsley	Northumberland	Horsley , eccl. dist. and hamlet, Elsdon par., N. Northumberland - dist., pop. 237; hamlet, on river Rede, 3 miles NW. of Otterburn	Bartholomew
  HORSLEY	Northumberland	HORSLEY , a chapelry in Elsdon parish, Northumberland; on the river Reed, 3 miles NNW of Otterburn, and 7 N by W of Woodburn	Imperial
  ROCHESTER	Northumberland	Elsdon parish, Northumberland. The village stands on Watling-street, near the river Reed, 5 miles N W of Otterburn; bears the name of High Rochester, to distinguish it from three other small places in the county; occupiespart of the site of the Roman Bremenium, on the brow of a rugged eminence; and has a post-office, of the name of Rochester, under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bremeniumwas a great Roman station, and a stipendiary city; and has left extensive and interesting remains. The fortifiedarea comprises about 6 acres; is still enclosed, on twosides, by three walls; has remains of an inner	Imperial
  ROTHBURY	Northumberland	Horsley, 6 of Nether-Witton, 6 of Hartburn, and all Long Framlington parish and Brinkburn parochial chapelry. Acres, 83, 187. Pop., 5, 310. Houses, 1,040. The districtcomprehends also the sub-district of Elsdon	Imperial

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