Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
South Stockton	town with railway station	Bartholomew
Stockton	ward	Bartholomew
STOCKTON	a sub-district, a district, and a ward	Imperial
STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY	a railway system	Imperial
Stockton, North	railway station	Bartholomew
Stockton on Tees		Bartholomew
STOCKTON-ON-TEES	a town, a township, and a parish	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Preston upon Tees	township	Bartholomew
Stockton, South	town with railway station	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 Stockton on Tees 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.
George Head	Tees-side	9
George Head	Durham Coast	4
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City	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	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	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
South Stockton	0	2
Thornaby on Tees	0	2
Norton	0	2
East Hartburn	0	2
Newport	0	2
Linthorpe	0	2
Preston on Tees	0	2
Elton	0	2
West Acklam	0	3
Preston Junction	0	1
Carlton	0	2
Haverton Hill	0	2
Middlesbrough	10	2
Stainton	0	2
Ingleby Barwick	0	2
Thorpe Thewles	0	2
Wolviston	0	2
Billingham	0	2
Port Clarence	0	3
Redmarshall	0	2