Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Newcastle under Lyme parliamentary and municipal borough, market town, and parish Bartholomew
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE, or Newcastle-under-Lyme a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district 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 Newcastle under Lyme 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.
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Staffordshire 3
William Adams Tramp Life 2
William Adams On Tramp 1
William Camden Worcestershire and Staffordshire 1
William Camden Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland 1
John Wesley 1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England 1
Thomas Pennant Wybunbury to Darlaston 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
Knutton 0 2
Cross Heath 0 1
Silverdale 0 2
Wolstanton 1 2
Hope 0 2
Chesterton 1 2
Hartshill 0 2
Etruria 0 2
Keele 0 2
Clayton 0 2
Longport 0 2
Penkhull 0 2
Rushton Grange 0 1
Shelton 0 2
Cobridge 0 2
Burslem 3 2
Hanley 1 2
Halmer End 0 2
Butterton 0 2
Trent Vale 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Newcastle under Lyme. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
NEWCASTLE William Adams Memoirs of a Social Atom (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1903).
Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
NEW CASTLE UNDER LIME William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
NEWCASTLE UNDER LINE Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME 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).
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYNE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYNE OR NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME 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.