Elsdon, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Elsdon parish, township, and village Bartholomew
ELSDON a village, a township, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Byrness place with school Bartholomew
BYRNESS, or Burness a chapelry Imperial
Elishaw hamlet Bartholomew
ELISHAW a hamlet Imperial
HORSLEY a chapelry Imperial
Monkridge township Bartholomew
MONKRIDGE-WARD a township Imperial
Mote Hill eminence Bartholomew
MOTE HILL an eminence Imperial
Otterburn township and village Bartholomew
OTTERBURN a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial
Rochester township and village Bartholomew
ROCHESTER a village and a township Imperial
Troughend township Bartholomew
TROUGHEND a township Imperial
Woodside township Bartholomew
WOODSIDE-WARD 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
Elishaw 0 2
Horsley By Elsdon 0 2
Otterburn 2 2
Rochester 5 2
Redesdale 0 3
Woodside 0 2
Holystone 1 2
Tarretburn 0 2
Troughend 0 2
Barrow 0 2
Harbottle 2 2
Linsheeles 0 2
Monkridge 0 2
Corsenside 0 2
Byrness 0 2
Dueshill 0 2
Risingham 2 2
Hepple 0 2
Bellingham 0 2
Tarset West 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
ELSDON 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).

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.