Longbenton, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BENTON (Long) a parish, and a subdistrict Imperial
Longbenton parish Bartholomew
Long Benton Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Longbenton.

Place Type of entry Source
Benton, Little hamlet Bartholomew
Hazelrigg village Bartholomew
HAZLERIGG a village Imperial
High Walker hamlet Bartholomew
Killingworth ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
Low Walker village with railway station Bartholomew
Seaton Burn village Bartholomew
SEATON-BURN a village Imperial
Six Mile Bridge village Bartholomew
Walker town with railway station Bartholomew
WALKER a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Wideopen village Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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 Historical Gazetteer
Killingworth 0 2
Burradon 0 2
North Gosforth 0 1
Dudley 0 2
Backworth 0 2
Little Benton 0 2
Weetslade 0 2
Hazlerigg 0 2
South Gosforth 0 1
Gosforth 1 2
Seghill 2 3
Tyne 5 2
Six Mile Bridge 0 2
East Brunton 0 2
Earsdon 0 2
Heaton 0 2
Seaton Burn 0 2
Wallsend 3 2
Jesmond 0 2
Coxlodge 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Longbenton. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
BENTON John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BENTON LONG John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LONG BENTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LONGBENTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.