Farne Islands, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Farne Islands Bartholomew
FERN ISLANDS, Farne Islands, or Staples an extra-parochial group of islets and rocks Imperial
Fern Islands (or Staples) group of 17 islets and rocks (forming a township) Bartholomew
Staples, The 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 Farne Islands 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.
Thomas Pennant July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed 2

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
Longstone 0 2
Monks House 0 1
Shoreston 0 2
North Sunderland 0 3
Burton 0 2
Budle 0 2
Glororum 0 2
Elford 0 2
Spindlestone 0 2
Fleetham 0 2
Beadnell 0 2
Bradford 0 2
Bamburgh 11 5
Ross 0 2
Outchester 0 2
Hoppen 0 2
Swinhoe 0 2
Easington 0 4
Newham 0 2
Tughall 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
FARNE ISLANDS 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).
FARN</EM> ISLANDS Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
FARN ISLAND Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
FERN ISLANDS 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).
FERN ISLANDS FARNE ISLANDS OR STAPLES John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
FERN ISLANDS OR STAPLES John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
STAPLES 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).
STAPLES THE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
THE STAPLES John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.