Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
ROTHBURY a small town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
BANKHEAD a township Imperial
Bickerton township Bartholomew
BICKERTON a township Imperial
Caistron township Bartholomew
CAISTRON a township Imperial
Cartington township Bartholomew
CARTINGTON a township Imperial
Debdon township Bartholomew
DEBDON a township Imperial
Fallowlees township Bartholomew
FALLOWLEES a township Imperial
Flotterton township Bartholomew
FLOTTERTON a township Imperial
Healey, Mount township Bartholomew
HEALEY (Mount) a township Imperial
Hepple and Hepple Demesne 2 townships Bartholomew
HEPPLE and HEPPLE-DEMESNE two townships Imperial
Hesley Hurst township Bartholomew
HESLEY-HURST a township Imperial
Hetchester ancient British camp Bartholomew
HETCHESTER an ancient British camp Imperial
Hollinghill township Bartholomew
HOLLINGHILL, or HELLINGHILL a township Imperial
Lee Ward township Bartholomew
LEE-WARD a township Imperial
Newtown township Bartholomew
NEWTOWN a township Imperial
PAPERHAUGH a township Imperial
Pauperhaugh township Bartholomew
Raw township Bartholomew
RAW a township Imperial
RYEHILL a hamlet Imperial
SIMONSIDE a picturesque tabular-topped hill Imperial
Snitter township Bartholomew
SNITTER a township Imperial
Thropton township Bartholomew
THROPTON a township Imperial
TOSSON (Great and Little) two townships Imperial
Tosson, Great, and Rye Hill township Bartholomew
Tosson, Little township Bartholomew
Trewhitt, High and Low township Bartholomew
TREWHITT (High and Low) a township Imperial
Warton township Bartholomew
WARTON a township Imperial
Whitton township Bartholomew
WHITTON a township Imperial
Wreighill township Bartholomew
WREIGHILL a township Imperial

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 Rothbury 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 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
Whitton 0 2
Mount Healey 0 3
Cartington 0 2
Newtown 0 2
Debdon 0 2
Thropton 0 2
Tosson 0 3
Hesleyhurst 0 2
Raw 0 2
Snitter 0 2
Lee Ward 0 2
Warton 0 2
Pauperhaugh 0 1
Lorbottle 0 2
Rimside Moor 0 2
Trewhitt 0 2
Flotterton 0 2
Caistron 0 2
Bickerton 0 2
Brinkburn 0 2