Horsley by Ovingham, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Horsley township Bartholomew
HORSLEY a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Horsley ecclesiastical district and hamlet Bartholomew
Horsley, Long parish 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 Horsley By Ovingham 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.
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham 2
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle 1
Charles Wesley Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north 1
John Wesley 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles 1
John Wesley 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions 1
John Wesley 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War 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
Spital 0 3
Whittle 0 2
Nafferton 2 3
Harlow Hill 0 2
Ovington 0 2
Whitchester 1 2
Ovingham 0 2
Welton 0 2
Masters Close 0 2
Nesbitt 0 2
Rudchester 1 2
Wylam 0 2
Stelling 0 2
Bearl 0 2
Eltringham 0 2
Houghton 0 2
Ouston 0 2
Cheeseburn Grange 0 2
Prudhoe 3 3
West Heddon 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Horsley By Ovingham. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
HORSLEY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Charles Wesley The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1849).
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).
HORSLEY BY OVINGHAM GBHGIS Great Britain Historical GIS Project (, ).

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.