Ovingham, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ovingham parish, township, and village Bartholomew
OVINGHAM a village and a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
DUKERS-HAGG a township Imperial
Eltringham township Bartholomew
ELTRINGHAM a township Imperial
Harlow Hill township Bartholomew
HARLOW-HILL a township Imperial
HEDLEY-ON-THE-HILL, AND HEDLEY-WOODSIDE two townships Imperial
Hedley Woodside township Bartholomew
Horsley township Bartholomew
HORSLEY a township Imperial
Masters Close township Bartholomew
Nafferton township Bartholomew
NAFFERTON a township Imperial
Ovington township and village Bartholomew
OVINGTON a township, with a village Imperial
Prudhoe township and village with railway station Bartholomew
Prudhoe Castle township Bartholomew
Rudchester (or Rouchester) township Bartholomew
RUDCHESTER, or Rouchester a township Imperial
Spital (or Spittle) township Bartholomew
SPITTLE a township Imperial
Welton township Bartholomew
WELTON a township Imperial
Whittle township Bartholomew
WHITTLE a township Imperial
Wylam township and village Bartholomew
WYLAM a township, with a village 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
Masters Close 0 2
Eltringham 0 2
Prudhoe 3 3
Ovington 0 2
Whittle 0 2
Horsley By Ovingham 7 2
Mickley 0 2
Bearl 0 2
Wylam 0 2
Nafferton 2 3
Spital 0 3
Dukes Hagg 0 2
Stocksfield 0 2
Stelling 0 2
Bywell 1 6
Harlow Hill 0 2
Rudchester 1 2
Closehouse 0 1
Welton 0 2
Houghton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
OFINGASHAM John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
OVINGHAM 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.