Welshpool, Montgomeryshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Pool hundred Bartholomew
Pool, Lower township Bartholomew
Pool, Middle township Bartholomew
Pool, Upper township Bartholomew
Welshpool hundred Bartholomew
Welshpool parliamentary and municipal borough Bartholomew
WELSHPOOL, or Pool a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cyfronydd township and seat Bartholomew
CYFRONYDD a township Imperial
DYSSERTH a township Imperial
LLANERCHYIDOL a township Imperial
STREDALFEDEN a township Imperial
TRALLWMGOLLEN a township Imperial
TREFNANTFECHAN a township Imperial
TYDDYN-PRYDD 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 Welshpool 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.
William Camden Rest of Wales 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and 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
Gungrog Fawr 0 2
Trelydan 0 1
Buttington 1 2
Hope 0 2
Garth 0 2
Leighton 0 2
Gaer 0 2
Llan 0 1
Cletterwood 0 2
Guilsfield 0 2
Trefnant 0 1
Trelystan 0 2
Sylfaen 0 1
Edderton 0 2
Pool Quay 0 2
Trewern 0 2
Broniarth 0 2
Brithdir 0 2
Rhos Goch 0 2
Tirymynech 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LOWER POOL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
MIDDLE POOL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
POOL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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).
POOL LOWER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
POOL MIDDLE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
POOL UPPER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
TRELLIN William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
UPPER POOL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WELCH POOL Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
WELCH POOLE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WELSHPOOL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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).
WELSHPOOL OR POOL 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.