Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aberavon	parish, and parliamentary and municipal borough	Bartholomew

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 Aberafan 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	1
William Gilpin	Neath to Pyle	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
Baglan	0	3
Briton Ferry	0	2
Taibach	0	2
Cwmavon	0	2
Michaelstone super Avon	0	4
Coed Ffranc	0	2
Neath	24	11
Port Talbot	0	1
Brombil	0	2
Hafod Y Porth	0	1
Skewen	0	2
Pontrhydfen	0	2
Port Tennant	0	2
Neath Abbey	0	2
Margam	10	2
Llantwit Juxta Neath	0	3
Llansamlet	0	2
Cadoxton Juxta Neath	0	2
Dyffrynclydach	0	2
Eglwys Nunydd	0	1