Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Morpeth	ward	Bartholomew
MORPETH	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a ward	Imperial
Morpeth Castle	township	Bartholomew
MORPETH-CASTLE	a township	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bullers Green	township	Bartholomew
Catchburn	village	Bartholomew
CATCHBURN	a village	Imperial
Church, High	hamlet	Bartholomew
ESPLEY	a village	Imperial
Hepscott	township and railway station	Bartholomew
HEPSCOTT	a township	Imperial
High Church	hamlet	Bartholomew
Newminster Abbey	township	Bartholomew
NEWMINSTER ABBEY	a township	Imperial
PARKHOUSES	a village	Imperial
Shilvington	township	Bartholomew
SHILVINGTON	a township	Imperial
Tranwell and High Church	township	Bartholomew
TRANWELL and HIGH CHURCH	a township	Imperial
Twizell	township	Bartholomew
TWIZELL	a township	Imperial
Ulgham	township and village	Bartholomew

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 Morpeth 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	2
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	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
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Bullers Green	0	2
Newminster	0	2
Catchburn	0	2
Spital Hill	0	2
Tranwell	0	2
Pegswood	0	2
Hepscott	0	2
Mitford	2	2
Hebron	0	2
Benridge	0	3
High and Low Highlaws	0	2
Newton Park	0	2
Cockle Park	0	2
Edington	0	1
Newton Underwood	0	1
Longhirst	0	2
Pigdon	0	2
Espley	0	2
Molesdon	0	2
Sheepwash	0	1