Whorlton, Yorkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Yarm market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
YARM a small town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial
Yarum 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 Yarm 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.
John Wesley 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost 2
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 1
William Camden Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland 1
Thomas Pennant July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed 1

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
Egglescliffe 0 3
Kirk Leavington 0 3
Aislaby 0 2
Castle Leavington 0 2
Ingleby Barwick 0 2
Preston Junction 0 1
Low Worsall 0 2
Newsham 0 2
Hilton 0 2
Preston on Tees 0 2
Picton 0 3
Maltby 0 2
Crathorne 0 2
High Worsall 0 2
Stainton 0 2
Middleton upon Leven 0 2
Elton 0 2
Long Newton 0 3
Middleton St George 2 4
Thornaby on Tees 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
YARE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
YARM 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).
YARUM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • 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.