Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hilton	township	Bartholomew
HILTON		Imperial
HYLTON	a railway station	Imperial
Hylton (or Hilton)	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
North Hylton	village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hylton, South	ecclesiastical district	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 Hylton 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	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 Hylton	0	1
Ford	0	2
Barmston	0	2
Pallion	0	2
Offerton	0	2
East Boldon	0	1
Southwick on Wear	0	2
Millfield	0	2
Washington	0	3
Boldon	0	2
Deptford	0	2
Bishop Wearmouth	0	2
Sunderland	23	3
Usworth	0	2
Monkwearmouth	0	2
Monkton	0	2
Fulwell	0	2
Hedworth	0	2
West Herrington	0	2
Penshaw	0	4