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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Llangollen. You may be able to find further references to Llangollen in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | LLANGOLLEN | a small town, a vale, and a parish | Imperial | LLANGOLLEN RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Llangollen.
Place | Type of entry | Source | BACHE | a township | Imperial | Cilcochwin | hamlet | Bartholomew | CILCOCHWIN | a township | Imperial | CROGEN-IDDON and CROGEN-W-LADIES | two townships | Imperial | Crogen-iddon and Crogen-y-Ladles | 2 hamlets | Bartholomew | CYSYLLTE | a township | Imperial | DINBREN | a township | Imperial | EGLYNOD-EAGLE | a township | Imperial | ERWALLO | a township | Imperial | Glyn-Traian | township | Bartholomew | GLYN-TRAIAN | a parochial division and a chapelry | Imperial | Havodgynfawr | hamlet | Bartholomew | HAVODGYNFAWR | a township | Imperial | Llangollen-Traian | township | Bartholomew | NANTYGWRYD | a township | Imperial | PENGWERN | a township | Imperial | Pontfadog | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | PONTFADOG | a chapelry | Imperial | RHYSCOG | a township | Imperial | TALYGARTH | a township | Imperial | Trevor | village with railway station | Bartholomew | TREVOR | a village, two townships, and a chapelry | Imperial | VIVOD | a township | 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 Llangollen 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 | Wrexham and Llangollen | 34 | George Borrow | Around Llangollen | 24 | George Borrow | Llangollen Again | 23 | George Borrow | Bala to Llangollen | 22 | George Borrow | To Wrexham | 15 | George Borrow | Chirk Castle | 10 | George Borrow | Conversations in Llangollen | 8 | George Borrow | Over the Berwyns | 7 | George Borrow | Llangollen to Cerrigydruidion | 7 | George Borrow | To Ruthin | 3 | George Borrow | Departure for South Wales | 3 | George Borrow | To the waterfall | 2 | George Borrow | To Beddgelert | 2 | George Borrow | Bala to Dinas Mawddwy | 2 | George Borrow | Around Anglesey (1) | 1 | George Borrow | Around Anglesey (4) | 1 | George Borrow | Rhyadr waterfall | 1 | George Borrow | Strata Florida and Tregaron | 1 | George Borrow | To Swansea | 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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Pengwern | 0 | 2 |
Valle Crucis | 0 | 2 |
Elisegs Pillar | 0 | 2 |
Pontfadog | 0 | 2 |
Erwallo | 0 | 2 |
Trevor | 0 | 2 |
Pont Cysylltan | 0 | 2 |
Llantysilio | 1 | 3 |
Glyntraean | 0 | 2 |
Nantygwryd | 0 | 1 |
Cefn | 0 | 2 |
Pen Y Cae | 0 | 1 |
Llansanffraid Glynceiriog | 6 | 2 |
Acrefair | 0 | 2 |
Christionydd | 0 | 2 |
Glyndyfrdwy | 0 | 2 |
Rhosymedre | 0 | 2 |
Bron Y Garth | 0 | 2 |
Chirk | 15 | 3 |
Rhosllannerchrugog | 0 | 1 |