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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Swansea. You may be able to find further references to Swansea in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Swansea | hundred | Bartholomew | SWANSEA | a town, a parish, a district, and a hundred | Imperial | Swansea, Higher and Lower | township | Bartholomew | Swansea Town | township | Bartholomew | SWANSEA VALE RAILWAY | a railway system | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Swansea.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Cockett | village with railway station | Bartholomew | Cussrim | village | Bartholomew | Sketty | ecclesiastical district with railway station | Bartholomew | St Thomas Swansea | township | Bartholomew | Swansea St Thomas | township | Bartholomew |
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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 Swansea 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 Borrow | To Swansea | 18 | George Borrow | Neath and Merthyr | 4 | Gerald of Wales | Book I, Ch. 8: Swansea and Gower | 2 | William Camden | Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales | 2 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire | 1 | Robert Gammage | Touring South Wales | 1 | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands | 1 |
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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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Cwmbwrla | 0 | 2 |
St Johns | 0 | 2 |
Landore | 0 | 2 |
Port Tennant | 0 | 2 |
Sketty | 0 | 2 |
Y Cocyd | 0 | 2 |
Morriston | 0 | 2 |
Llangyfelach | 0 | 2 |
Llansamlet | 0 | 2 |
Clas | 0 | 2 |
Penderi | 0 | 2 |
Killay | 0 | 2 |
Penller Gaer | 0 | 1 |
Coed Ffranc | 0 | 2 |
Gowerton | 0 | 2 |
Norton | 0 | 2 |
Mumbles | 0 | 2 |
Oystermouth | 0 | 2 |
Gorseinon | 0 | 2 |
Loughor | 5 | 3 |