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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Stanhope. You may be able to find further references to Stanhope in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Stanhope | market town and parish with railway station | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Stanhope.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Cowshill | village | Bartholomew |
Eastgate | village | Bartholomew |
Forest Quarter | district | Bartholomew |
FOREST-QUARTER | a township | Imperial |
FROSTERLEY | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
HEATHERYCLEUGH | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
Heathery Clough | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
Ireshopeburn | village | Bartholomew |
JOHN (ST.) | a sub-district | Imperial |
Northgate Fell | moor | Bartholomew |
PARK-QUARTER | a township | Imperial |
Rookhope | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
ROOKHOPE | a chapelry | Imperial |
St John Weardale | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
Weardale St John | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
WEARDALE-ST. JOHN | a chapelry, with a village | Imperial |
Wearhead | hamlet | Bartholomew |
WEAR-HEAD | a hamlet | Imperial |
Westgate | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
WESTGATE | a chapelry | Imperial |
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 Stanhope 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. |
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George Head | Newcastle upon Tyne | 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 |
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Wear Valley | 0 | 2 |
Newlandside | 0 | 1 |
Frosterley | 0 | 2 |
Eastgate | 0 | 2 |
Rookhope | 0 | 2 |
Park Quarter | 0 | 1 |
Wolsingham | 1 | 2 |
Muggleswick | 0 | 2 |
Westgate | 0 | 2 |
Hunstanworth | 0 | 3 |
Edmondbyers | 0 | 3 |
Weardale St John | 0 | 2 |
South Bedburn | 0 | 2 |
Newbiggin | 0 | 2 |
Middleton in Teesdale | 0 | 4 |
Thornley | 0 | 2 |
Tow Law | 0 | 2 |
Eggleston | 1 | 2 |
Castleside | 0 | 2 |
Newbiggin | 1 | 3 |