Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chester	ward	Bartholomew
CHESTER	a ward	Imperial
CHESTER-LE-STREET	a small town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Chester-le-Street Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beamish	township	Bartholomew
BEAMISH	a township	Imperial
Bewicke Main Colliery	place with school	Bartholomew
Birtley	township with railway station	Bartholomew
BIRTLEY	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Crookgate	hamlet	Bartholomew
EDMONDLEY	a township	Imperial
Edmonsley	township	Bartholomew
EIGHTON-BANKS	a chapelry	Imperial
Harraton	township	Bartholomew
HARRATON	a township and a sub-district	Imperial
Hedley	village	Bartholomew
HEDLEY	a township	Imperial
Hermitage	seat	Bartholomew
Kibblesworth	village	Bartholomew
KIBBLESWORTH	a township	Imperial
Lambton	township	Bartholomew
LAMBTON	a township	Imperial
Lamesley	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
Leybourne Hold	hamlet	Bartholomew
LINTZ-GREEN	a township	Imperial
Lumley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LUMLEY	a chapelry	Imperial
Lumley, Great	township and village	Bartholomew
LUMLEY (GREAT)	a village and a township	Imperial
Lumley, Little	township and village	Bartholomew
LUMLEY (LITTLE)	a township	Imperial
Ouston	township	Bartholomew
OUSTON	a township	Imperial
PELTON	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Picktree	village	Bartholomew
PICKTREE	a village	Imperial
Plawsworth	township and railway station	Bartholomew
PLAWSWORTH	a township	Imperial
Ravensworth	village	Bartholomew
RAVENSWORTH	a township	Imperial
Tanfield	township	Bartholomew
Urpeth	township	Bartholomew
URPETH	a township	Imperial
Waldridge	township	Bartholomew
WALDRIDGE	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 Chester le Street 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	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	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
Waldridge	0	2
Wear	0	2
Pelton	2	2
Picktree	0	2
Plawsworth	0	2
Little Lumley	1	3
Lambton	0	2
Edmondsley	0	3
Great Lumley	0	4
Ouston	0	2
Harraton	0	2
Urpeth	0	2
Kimblesworth	0	2
Cocken	0	2
Sacriston	0	2
Findonhill	0	2
Beamish	0	2
Birtley	0	2
Burnmoor	0	4
Holmside	0	2