Woodhorn, Northumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Woodhorn parish and township Bartholomew
WOODHORN a township and a parish Imperial
Woodhorn Demesne township Bartholomew
WOODHORN-DEMESNE a township Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cresswell township and seat Bartholomew
CRESSWELL a township and a chapelry Imperial
Dunridge hamlet Bartholomew
Ellington township Bartholomew
ELLINGTON a township Imperial
Hurst township Bartholomew
HURST a township Imperial
Linmouth coastal township Bartholomew
LINMOUTH a township Imperial
Linton hamlet Bartholomew
NEWBIGGIN a village and a township-chapelry Imperial
Newbiggin, (or Newbiggin by the Sea) small town and township Bartholomew
North Seaton railway station Bartholomew
Seaton, North coastal township and village with railway station Bartholomew
SEATON (North) 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
Hirst 0 3
Ashington 0 2
North Seaton 0 3
Newbiggin By the Sea 0 2
Lynemouth 0 2
Bothal 1 2
Wansbeck 3 3
Sheepwash 0 1
Old Moor 0 2
Ellington 0 2
Sleekburn 0 2
Cresswell 0 2
Cambois 0 2
Choppington 0 2
Longhirst 0 2
Bedlingtonshire 0 2
Bedlington 1 2
Pegswood 0 2
Ulgham 0 2
Cowpen 0 4

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
WOODHORN 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).
WOODHORN DEMESNE 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.