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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Abergavenny. You may be able to find further references to Abergavenny in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Abergavenny | hundred | Bartholomew | ABERGAVENNY | a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Abergavenny.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HARDWICKE | a hamlet | Imperial | LLOYNDU | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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 Abergavenny 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 | Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan | 8 | Gerald of Wales | Book I, Ch. 4: Coed Grono and Abergevenni | 3 | William Gilpin | Monmouth to Llandovery | 2 | Gerald of Wales | Book I, Ch. 8: Swansea and Gower | 1 | Gerald of Wales | Book II, Ch. 3: Lampeter | 1 | William Camden | Cornwall and Devon | 1 | Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland | 1 | Charles Wesley | 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne | 1 | William Gilpin | To the source of the Wye | 1 | William Gilpin | Bridgend to Bristol | 1 | John Wesley | 1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales | 1 | Henry Vincent | Apr. 22 to 27: the Welsh Valleys | 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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Llwyndu | 0 | 1 |
Llandeilo Bertholau | 0 | 2 |
Llanwenarth | 0 | 2 |
Govilon | 0 | 2 |
Llan Ffwyst | 0 | 2 |
Llanddewi Ysgyryd | 0 | 2 |
Llangenni | 0 | 2 |
Llanelen | 0 | 2 |
Maesgwartha | 0 | 2 |
Llanfihangel Crucornau | 0 | 2 |
Llanddewi Rhydderch | 0 | 2 |
Llangatwg Dyffryn Wysg | 0 | 2 |
Llanfferrin | 0 | 3 |
Llanelli | 0 | 2 |
Clydach | 0 | 3 |
Partrishow | 0 | 2 |
Llanover | 0 | 2 |
Bwlch Tre Wyn | 0 | 2 |
Cwmyoy | 0 | 2 |
Llanfable | 0 | 2 |