Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
HOLY ISLAND, or LINDISFARNE	a village, an island, and a parish	Imperial
Lindisfarne, or HOLY ISLAND	peninsular parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Fenham	hamlet	Bartholomew
FENHAM	a township	Imperial
Goswick	coastal hamlet	Bartholomew
GOSWICK	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 Holy Island 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
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	2
William Camden	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	2
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	2
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	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
Haggerston	0	2
Islandshire	0	2
Beal	0	2
Kyloe	0	2
Ancroft	0	2
Scremerston	0	2
Bowsden	0	1
Lowick	0	2
Barmoor	0	2
Detchant	0	2
Elwick	0	2
Spittle	0	2
Middleton	0	2
Tweedmouth	0	2
Ord	0	2
Thornton	0	2
Shoreswood	0	2
Felkington	0	2
Ross	0	2
Longridge	0	2