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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Alnwick. You may be able to find further references to Alnwick in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | ALNWICK | a town, a castle, two townships, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Alnwick.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Abbey Lands | township | Bartholomew | ABBEY-LANDS | a township | Imperial | Broomhouse | hamlet | Bartholomew | BROOMHOUSE | a hamlet | Imperial | Canongate | township | Bartholomew | CANONGATE | a township | Imperial | CAULEDGE-PARK | a hamlet | Imperial | DENWICK | a township | Imperial | FRIAR'S BUILDINGS | a hamlet | Imperial | Greensfield | hamlet | Bartholomew | GREENSFIELD | a hamlet | Imperial | Grumwells Park | hamlet | Bartholomew | Heckley, Heckley Farm, and Heckley Grange | 3 hamlets | Bartholomew | HECKLEY, HECKLEY FARM, and HECKLEY GRANGE | three hamlets | Imperial | Hobberlaw | hamlet | Bartholomew | HOBBERLOW | a hamlet | Imperial | Hulne Park | hamlet | Bartholomew | HULNE-PARK | a township | Imperial | PARK-FARM | a hamlet | Imperial | Rugley | hamlet | Bartholomew | RUGLEY | a hamlet | Imperial | SHIELDYKES | a hamlet | Imperial | Snipehouse | hamlet | Bartholomew | SNIPE-HOUSE | a hamlet | Imperial | Whitehouse | hamlet | Bartholomew |
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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 Alnwick 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. | William Camden | Northumberland | 3 | Robert Gammage | Ayrshire and Renfrewshire | 3 | William Camden | Yorkshire: East and North Ridings | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 2 | John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 2 | Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 2 | William Camden | Kent | 1 | William Camden | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland | 1 | Robert Gammage | Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections | 1 | John Wesley | 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy | 1 | John Wesley | 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners | 1 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 1 | John Wesley | 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People | 1 | Thomas Pennant | July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed | 1 |
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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 |
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Denwick | 0 | 1 |
Abbeylands | 0 | 2 |
Abberwick | 0 | 2 |
Hulne Park | 0 | 2 |
Lemmington | 0 | 2 |
Shilbottle | 0 | 2 |
Bassington | 0 | 2 |
Whittle | 0 | 2 |
Bolton | 0 | 5 |
Woodhouse | 0 | 2 |
Broome Park | 0 | 2 |
Broxfield | 0 | 2 |
Edlingham | 1 | 2 |
Lesbury | 0 | 2 |
Bilton | 0 | 2 |
Hartlaw | 0 | 2 |
Glantlees | 0 | 1 |
Greens | 0 | 2 |
Learchild | 0 | 2 |
Shipley | 0 | 2 |