Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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 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

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
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