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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hartlepool. You may be able to find further references to Hartlepool in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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HARTLEPOOL | a seaport town, a parish, and a subdistrict | Imperial |
HARTLEPOOL (WEST), RAILWAY | a system of railway | 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 Hartlepool 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 | Durham Coast | 9 |
William Camden | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 4 |
John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 2 |
George Head | North Riding | 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 |
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West Hartlepool | 0 | 2 |
Stranton | 0 | 2 |
Middleton | 0 | 3 |
Throston | 0 | 2 |
Seaton | 0 | 2 |
Brierton | 0 | 2 |
Dalton Piercy | 0 | 2 |
Claxton | 1 | 2 |
Greatham | 1 | 2 |
Hart | 0 | 2 |
Elwick | 0 | 4 |
Thorpe Bulmer | 0 | 2 |
Newton Bewley | 0 | 2 |
Nesbitt | 0 | 2 |
Cowpen Bewley | 0 | 2 |
Sheraton | 0 | 3 |
Monk Hesleden | 0 | 2 |
Billingham | 0 | 2 |
Hulam | 0 | 2 |
Coatham | 0 | 3 |