Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
MARGAM	a hamlet, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Margam.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broombill	hamlet	Bartholomew
BROOMBILL, or Brombil	a hamlet	Imperial
EGLWYS-NUNYDD	a farm	Imperial
HAVOD-Y-PORTH	a hamlet	Imperial
KENFIGG (HIGHER)	a hamlet	Imperial
Taibach	village	Bartholomew
TAIBACH	a chapelry, with a subnrban village	Imperial
TRISSIENT	a hamlet	Imperial

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 Margam 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	4
William Gilpin	Neath to Pyle	3
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 7: South Glamorgan	1
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 8: Swansea and Gower	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	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
Port Talbot	0	1
Hafod Y Porth	0	1
Brombil	0	2
Eglwys Nunydd	0	1
Taibach	0	2
Cwmavon	0	2
Michaelstone super Avon	0	4
Cwm Du	0	1
Troed Rhiw Garth	0	1
Kenfig	2	4
Pontrhydfen	0	2
Llangynwyd	0	3
Maes Teg	0	2
Pyle	2	2
Aberafan	2	2
Baiden	0	1
Baglan	0	3
Tythegston	0	2
Briton Ferry	0	2
Y Sger	0	2