Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BERWICK a district Imperial
Berwick on Tweed parish, municipal borough, and seaport town Bartholomew
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED a town, a parish, and a subdistrict Imperial

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 Berwick upon Tweed 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.
William Camden Northumberland 7
Daniel Defoe Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland 3
Thomas Pennant July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed 3
James Boswell November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland 2
John Wesley 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery 2
Thomas Pennant July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh 2
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 2
James Boswell August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose 1
William Camden Cumberland 1
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 1
William Camden Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland 1
John Wesley 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy 1
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 1
Feargus O'Connor O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839 1
Thomas Pennant September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire 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
Halidon Hill 1 2
Tweedmouth 0 2
Spittle 0 2
Ord 0 2
Lamberton 0 2
Mordington 2 2
Loanend 0 1
Longridge 0 2
Horncliffe 0 2
Foulden 0 2
Thornton 0 2
Scremerston 0 2
Hutton 0 2
Burnmouth 0 2
Shoreswood 0 2
Ancroft 0 2
Horndean 0 2
Ayton 1 2
Felkington 0 2
Grievestead 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Berwick upon Tweed. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
BARWICKE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BEORNICA WIC William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BERWICK James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Oxford, Mississippi, 2004).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Feargus O'Connor Tour of the North in the Northern Star (Leeds, 1839).
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BERWICKE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BERWICK ON TWEED John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BERWICK UPON TWEED John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
TUESSIS 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.