Newburn, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Newburn parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew
NEWBURN a village, a township, and a parish Imperial
NEWBURN-HALL a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BLACK-CALLERTON a township Imperial
Butterlaw township Bartholomew
BUTTERLAW a township Imperial
CALLERTON (High) a township Imperial
Dalton township Bartholomew
DALTON a township Imperial
Denton, East township Bartholomew
DENTON (East) a township Imperial
Denton, West township Bartholomew
DENTON (West) a township Imperial
Dissington, North and South 2 townships Bartholomew
DISSINGTON (North and South) two townships Imperial
Newbiggin township Bartholomew
NEWBIGGIN a township Imperial
New Throckley village Bartholomew
Scotswood village with railway station Bartholomew
SCOTSWOOD a village Imperial
Sugley township Bartholomew
SUGLEY a township Imperial
Throckley township Bartholomew
THROCKLEY a township Imperial
Wallbottle township and village Bartholomew
WALLBOTTLE a township Imperial
Whorlton, East and West township Bartholomew
WHORLTON (East and West) a township Imperial
Woolsington township 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
Wallbottle 0 2
West Denton 0 2
Sugley 0 2
East Denton 0 2
Throckley 0 2
Whorlton 0 2
Butterlaw 0 2
Stella 0 2
Newbiggin 0 2
Black Callerton 0 2
Scotswood 0 2
Woolsington 0 2
East Heddon 0 2
Kenton 0 2
High Callerton 0 2
Crawbrook 0 2
Ryton 1 4
Closehouse 0 1
Heddon on the Wall 1 2
Houghton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NEWBURN 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).
NEWBURN HALL 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:

  • 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.