Long Horsley, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
HORSLEY (LONG) a village Imperial
Long Horsley parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bigges Quarter township Bartholomew
BIGGES QUARTER, or Carlisles Quarter a township Imperial
Carlisles Quarter, or Bigges township Bartholomew
Chirm village Bartholomew
CHIRM a village Imperial
Freeholders Quarter township Bartholomew
FREEHOLDERS-QUARTER a township Imperial
Garrotlee village Bartholomew
GARROTLEE a village Imperial
LONGSHAWS a township Imperial
Riddells-Quarter township Bartholomew
RIDDELLS-QUARTER a township Imperial
Stanton township Bartholomew
STANTON a township Imperial
Todburn township Bartholomew
TODBURN a township Imperial
Wingates township Bartholomew
WINGATES a township Imperial
Witton Shields township Bartholomew
WITTON-SHIELDS a township Imperial

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
Riddells Quarter 0 2
Bigges Quarter 0 3
Freeholders Quarter 0 2
Horsley Moor 0 1
Todburn 0 2
Causey Park 0 2
Fenrother 0 2
Bockenfield 0 2
Stanton 0 2
Witton Shields 0 2
Tritlington 0 2
Earsdon 0 3
Coquet 0 3
Wingates 0 2
Garretlee 0 2
Espley 0 2
Elyhaugh 0 2
Brinkburn 0 2
Thirston 0 3
Netherwitton 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
HORSLEY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
HORSLEY LONG John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LONG HORSLEY 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).

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