Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CHEPSTOW	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hardwick	hamlet	Bartholomew
HARDWICK	a hamlet	Imperial
Poolmerick	village	Bartholomew
POOLMERICK	a village	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 Chepstow 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	Conclusion: Newport and Chepstow	9
William Gilpin	Tintern to Chepstow	3
Henry Vincent	Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes	3
Henry Vincent	Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud	3
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	2
William Gilpin	To the source of the Wye	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester	1
William Gilpin	The Wye	1
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	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
Hardwick	0	2
Pwll Meyrick	0	2
St Kinmarks	0	1
Beachley	0	2
Mounton	0	2
Matherne	0	2
St Pierre	0	2
Piercefield	4	2
Howick	0	2
St Arvans	0	3
Runston	0	1
Lancaut	0	2
Tidenham	1	2
Aust	6	2
Blackrock	0	2
Portskewett	2	3
Crick	0	2
Itton	0	2
Littleton upon Severn	0	2
Sudbrook	0	2