Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dawdon	township	Bartholomew
DAWDON	a township	Imperial
Seaham	coastal parish and township	Bartholomew
Seaham	railway station	Bartholomew
Seaham Harbour	seaport town	Bartholomew
SEAHAM-HARBOUR	a sea-port town and a chapelry	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
New Seaham	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
Seaham Colliery	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Seaham, New	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
SEAHAM (New)	a chapelry	Imperial
Seaton	railway station	Bartholomew
Seaton and Slingley	township	Bartholomew
SLINGLEY	a hamlet	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 Seaham 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	Durham Coast	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
New Seaham	0	3
Dalton le Dale	0	2
Cold Hesledon	0	3
Hawthorn	0	2
Seaton	0	3
East Murton	0	3
Slingley	0	2
Burdon	0	2
Ryhope	0	2
Easington	0	3
South Hetton	0	2
Great Eppleton	0	2
Warden Law	0	2
Tunstall	0	2
Little Eppleton	0	1
Maiden Paps	0	2
Lyons	0	1
Silksworth	0	2
Horden	0	2
Hetton	0	4