Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LLANDAFF	a city and a parish	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Canton	ecclesiastical district (St John) and village	Bartholomew
CANTON	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Ely	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
ELY	a hamlet	Imperial
Fairwater	hamlet	Bartholomew
FAIRWATER	a hamlet	Imperial
Gabalva	ecclesiastical district and hamlet	Bartholomew
GABALVA	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 Llandaff 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	4
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 7: South Glamorgan	2
Gerald of Wales	Introduction	1
William Camden	Britaine	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	1
William Camden	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales	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
Canton	0	2
Ely	0	2
Gabalfa	0	2
Grangetown	0	2
Lecwith	0	2
Cardiff	58	2
Caerau	0	4
Tredegarville	0	2
Radur	0	2
Michaelston super Ely	0	2
Butetown	0	2
St Fagans	0	2
Michaelston le Pit	1	2
Llandough Juxta Penarth	0	2
Whitchurch	1	2
Roath	0	2
Llanishen	4	2
St George super Ely	0	2
Dinas Powys	0	2
St Brides super Ely	0	2