Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SHIELDS (South)	a town, a township, five chapelries, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
South Shields	parliamentary and municipal borough	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 South Shields 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	Newcastle upon Tyne	4
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1
George Head	Selby and Goole	1
George Head	Durham Coast	1
George Head	Whitehaven	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	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
Westoe	0	2
Harton	0	2
Tyne Dock	0	1
Low Town	0	2
Marsden	0	3
Percy Main	0	2
North Shields	1	3
Cleadon	0	2
Jarrow	2	2
Chirton	0	2
Whitburn	0	2
Boldon	0	2
Howdon	0	2
Tynemouth	8	2
Hedworth	0	2
East Boldon	0	1
Preston	0	2
Willington Quay	0	3
Jarrow Grange	0	1
Monkton	0	2