Conway, Caernarvonshire : Place names

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Conway. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
ABERCONWAY	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	Daniel Defoe	A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
ABER CONWEY	William Camden	Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CONWAY	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CONWAY OR ABERCONWAY	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CONWAY THE	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CONWY	Gerald of Wales	The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales (Oxford, Mississippi, 1997).
NEW CONOVIUM	William Camden	Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
THE CONWAY	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Conway. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
00NE	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
ABERCONWY	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 48.
ADMINISTERED BY CONWAY RD	Local Government District (RD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
AREA ADMINISTERED BY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONWAY CARNARVONSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
AREA ADMINISTERED BY THE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONWAY CARNARVONSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Tenements in the Occupation of Private Families. - Classified by Number of Rooms and by Numbers of Occupants, in each Administrative County and in the Aggregates of Urban Districts (exclusive of County Boroughs) and of Rural Districts; also in Urban Districts (other than County Boroughs) and in Rural Districts, 1911'.
CAERNARVONSHIRE CONWAY	Constituency (CCon)	Boundary Commission for England, First Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1954)
CIVIL PARISHES OF LLANELIAN YN RHÔS AND LLANSANTFFRAID GLAN CONWAY	Local Government District (RD)	1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'.
CIVIL PARISHES OF LLANELIAN YN RHÔS AND LLANSANTFFRAID GLAN CONWAY ADMINISTERED BY RDC OF CONWAY CAERNARVONSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
CIVIL PARISHES OF LLANELIAN YN RHÔS AND LLANSANTFFRAID GLAN CONWAY ADMINISTERED BY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONWAY CARNARVONSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
CIVIL PARISHES OF LLANLLIAN YN RHÔS AND LLANSANTFFRAID GLAN CONWAY ADMINISTERED BY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONWAY CARNARVONSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
CONWAY	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Local Government District (MB)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 48.
	Local Government District (RD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 48.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	Statement of the Names of the Several Unions and Poor Law Parishes of England and Wales; and of the Population, Area, and Rateable Value thereof in 1881 (104)
	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Sanitary District (USD)	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
	Sanitary District (RSD)	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
CONWY	Built-up Area	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (Built Up Areas (December 2024) Boundaries EW)
	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
CONWY AND DENBIGHSHIRE	Nuts Unit Level 3	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (NUTS, level 3 (January 2018) Boundaries UK)
CP OF LLANELIAN YN RHÔS AND LLANSANTFFRAID GLAN CONWAY ADMINISTERED BY RDC OF CONWAY CAERNARVONSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
GLAN CONWAY	Local Government District (RD)	1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'.
UKL13	Nuts Unit Level 3	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (NUTS, level 3 (January 2018) Boundaries UK)
UNNAMED	Local Government District (RD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
UNNAMED ADMINISTERED BY CONWAY RD	Local Government District (RD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 8, 'Administrative Counties, Urban Districts and Rural Districts - Persons, Males and Females at each year of age under 21 and in quinquennial age-groups in each Administrative County (inclusive and exclusive of associated County Boroughs) and in the aggregates of Urban Districts, of County Boroughs and of Rural districts. Also Males and Females at these ages in each County Borough, Municipal Borough, other Urban District and Rural District, 1911'.
W45000655	Built-up Area	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (Built Up Areas (December 2024) Boundaries EW)
W491332	Local Government District (MB)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Conway, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Conway, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.