Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BERWICK	a district	Imperial
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED	a town, a parish, and a subdistrict	Imperial

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 Berwick upon Tweed 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	7
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	3
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	3
James Boswell	November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	2
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	2
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	1
William Camden	Cumberland	1
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
Feargus O'Connor	O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839	1
Thomas Pennant	September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire	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
Halidon Hill	0	2
Tweedmouth	0	2
Spittle	0	2
Ord	0	2
Lamberton	0	2
Mordington	2	2
Loanend	0	1
Longridge	0	2
Horncliffe	0	2
Foulden	0	2
Thornton	0	2
Scremerston	0	2
Hutton	0	2
Burnmouth	0	2
Shoreswood	0	2
Ancroft	0	2
Horndean	0	2
Ayton	0	2
Felkington	0	2
Grievestead	0	2