New Romney, Kent : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Llandaff small market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
LLANDAFF a city and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Canton ecclesiastical district (St John) and village Bartholomew
CANTON a chapelry, with a village Imperial
Ely hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
ELY a hamlet Imperial
Fairwater hamlet Bartholomew
FAIRWATER a hamlet Imperial
Gabalva ecclesiastical district and hamlet Bartholomew
GABALVA a hamlet 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 Llandaff 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 4
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 7: South Glamorgan 2
Gerald of Wales Introduction 1
William Camden Britaine 1
William Camden The Division of Britaine 1
William Camden Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan 1
William Camden Smaller Islands in the British Ocean 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South 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 Historical Gazetteer
Canton 0 2
Ely 0 2
Gabalfa 0 2
Grangetown 0 2
Lecwith 0 2
Cardiff 58 2
Caerau 0 4
Tredegarville 0 2
Radur 0 2
Michaelston super Ely 0 2
Butetown 0 2
St Fagans 0 2
Michaelston le Pit 1 2
Llandough Juxta Penarth 0 2
Whitchurch 1 2
Roath 0 2
Llanishen 4 2
St George super Ely 0 2
Dinas Powys 0 2
St Brides super Ely 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LANDAF Gerald of Wales The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales (Oxford, Mississippi, 1997).
LANDAFF William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
LANDAFFE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
LAUNTON Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
LHANDAFF William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
LLANDAFF 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).

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.