Bangor Is Coed, Flintshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
BANGOR-IS-Y-COED, or Bangor-Monachorum a township Imperial
Bangor-ys-Coed parish and township Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Eyton township Bartholomew
EYTON a township Imperial
Pickhill township Bartholomew
PICKHILL a township Imperial
Royton township Bartholomew
ROYTON a township Imperial
Sesswick township Bartholomew
SESSWICK 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 Bangor Is Coed 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 Shropshire and Cheshire 8
William Camden Rest of Wales 3
William Camden Ireland (2) 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands 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
Seswick 0 2
Royton 0 2
Pickhill 0 2
Worthenbury 0 2
Overton 0 2
Eyton 0 2
Sutton 0 2
Penley 0 2
Erbistock 0 2
Threapwood 0 2
Halghton 0 2
Marchwiail 0 2
Dutton 0 2
Ridley 0 2
Abenbury 0 4
Knolton 0 2
Is Y Coed 0 3
Maelor 0 2
Willington 0 2
Erlas 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Bangor Is Coed. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
BANCHOR William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BANCORNA BYRIGE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BANGOR 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).
BANGOR BY DEE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BANGOR IS Y COED John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BANGOR IS Y COED OR BANGOR MONACHORUM John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BANGOR MONACHORUM John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BANGOR YS COED John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
BON CHOR William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BONIUM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BOVIUM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.