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The following appear as names for Wales. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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WALES | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Wales. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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CYMRU | Country (Dep) | Great Britain Historical GIS Project |
MONMOUTHSHIRE AND WALES | Poor Law/Registration Division | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Ages of Males and Females in Sanitary Districts'. |
NORTH WALES | Poor Law/Registration County | Poor Law Board, Annual Report (HMSO) |
SOUTH WALES | Poor Law/Registration County | Poor Law Board, Annual Report (HMSO) |
UNIVERSITY OF WALES | Constituency (UniCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WALES | Country (Dep) | Great Britain Historical GIS Project |
Government Office Region | Great Britain Historical GIS Project | |
Poor Law/Registration Division | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Registration divisions and Counties - Area, and population at each successive Census'. | |
WALES UNIVERSITY OF | Constituency (UniCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WELSH | Poor Law/Registration Division | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Wales, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Wales, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Wales's History | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20004/names
Date accessed: 18th October 2024