Auckland St Andrew, County Durham : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auckland, St Andrew parish and township Bartholomew
AUCKLAND (St. Andrew) a township and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BEDBURN (North) a township Imperial
BEDBURN (South) a Township Imperial
BYERS-GREEN a township and a chapelry Imperial
Coundon township Bartholomew
COUNDON a township and a chapelry Imperial
Coundon Grange township Bartholomew
COUNDON GRANGE a township Imperial
Eldon township Bartholomew
ELDON a township Imperial
Escomb township and village Bartholomew
ETHERLEY a chapelry Imperial
EVENWOOD a village and a chapelry Imperial
FIR-TREE a chapelry Imperial
Helmington village Bartholomew
High Etherley village Bartholomew
Hunwick ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
HUNWICK a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Hunwick and Helmington township Bartholomew
LYNESACK AND SOFTLY a township-chapelry Imperial
Middlestone township and village Bartholomew
MIDDLESTONE a township Imperial
Middridge township and village Bartholomew
MIDDRIDGE a township Imperial
Newfield township and village Bartholomew
Newton Cap township Bartholomew
Pollards Lands township Bartholomew
Rushyford hamlet Bartholomew
SHILDON a village, a townsliip, and a chapelry Imperial
SOFTLEY a hamlet Imperial
Thickley, East township Bartholomew
THICKLEY (East) a township Imperial
Westerton township Bartholomew
WESTERTON a township Imperial
Windlestone township Bartholomew
WINDLESTONE a township Imperial
Witton Park ecclesiastical district 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
Pollards Land 0 2
Bishop Auckland 1 4
Escomb 0 2
Auckland St Helen 0 2
West Auckland 0 3
Newton Cap 0 2
Witton Park 0 1
Etherley 0 3
Binchester 3 2
Hunwick 0 3
Coundon 0 4
New Shildon 0 1
Witton Junction 0 1
Shildon 0 2
Westerton 0 2
East Thickley 0 2
Redworth 0 2
Newfield 0 2
Eldon 0 2
Helmington 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Auckland St Andrew. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
AUCKLAND 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).
AUCKLAND ST ANDREW 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).
ST ANDREW AUCKLAND 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).

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

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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.