Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CARDIFF	a town, two parishes, a subdistrict, and a district	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 Cardiff 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.
Charles Wesley	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	13
George Borrow	Neath and Merthyr	5
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 6: Newport and Cardiff	5
Charles Wesley	Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales	4
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	3
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	3
John Wesley	1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield	3
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	3
George Borrow	Conclusion: Newport and Chepstow	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	2
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	2
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	2
William Gilpin	Bridgend to Bristol	2
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	1
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
Robert Gammage	Touring South Wales	1
John Wesley	1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; 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
Tredegarville	0	2
Roath	0	2
Grangetown	0	2
Butetown	0	2
Gabalfa	0	2
Canton	0	2
Llandaff	12	2
Lecwith	0	2
Ely	0	2
Llandough Juxta Penarth	0	2
Rumney	0	2
Llanishen	4	2
Llanedern	0	2
Michaelston le Pit	1	2
Caerau	0	4
Whitchurch	1	2
Penarth	0	2
Lisvane	0	2
Radur	0	2
Dinas Powys	0	2