Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Pool	hundred	Bartholomew
Pool, Lower	township	Bartholomew
Pool, Middle	township	Bartholomew
Pool, Upper	township	Bartholomew
Welshpool	hundred	Bartholomew
Welshpool	parliamentary and municipal borough	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cyfronydd	township and seat	Bartholomew
CYFRONYDD	a township	Imperial
DYSSERTH	a township	Imperial
LLANERCHYIDOL	a township	Imperial
STREDALFEDEN	a township	Imperial
TRALLWMGOLLEN	a township	Imperial
TREFNANTFECHAN	a township	Imperial
TYDDYN-PRYDD	a township	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 Welshpool 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	Rest of Wales	2
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
Gungrog Fawr	0	2
Trelydan	0	1
Buttington	0	2
Hope	0	2
Garth	0	2
Leighton	0	2
Gaer	0	2
Llan	0	1
Cletterwood	0	2
Guilsfield	0	2
Trefnant	0	1
Trelystan	0	2
Sylfaen	0	1
Edderton	0	2
Pool Quay	0	2
Trewern	0	2
Broniarth	0	2
Brithdir	0	2
Rhos Goch	0	2
Tirymynech	0	1