Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Plessey	hamlet with railway station	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 Plessey 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.
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	2
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	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 Hist. Gazetteer
Hartford	0	2
Cramlington	0	2
Stannington	0	2
Bebside	0	2
Blagdon	0	3
Horton	2	2
Bedlington	1	2
Bedlingtonshire	0	2
Choppington	0	2
Brenkley	0	2
Seaton Burn	0	2
Hepscott	0	2
Six Mile Bridge	0	2
Horton Grange	0	2
Weetslade	0	2
Cowpen	0	4
Dudley	0	2
Blyth	1	8
Mason	0	2
Seghill	2	3