Caron Is Clawdd, Cardiganshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Caron parish Bartholomew
CARON-YS-CLAWDD a parish Imperial
Tregaron small town and township with railway station Bartholomew
TREGARON a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Argoed and Ystrad township with railway station Bartholomew
ARGOED and Ystrad a township Imperial
Blaenaeron township Bartholomew
BLAEN-AERON a township Imperial
BLAEN-CARON a township Imperial
CARON-UWCH-CLAWDD, or Strata-florida a township-chapelry Imperial
CROES AND BERWYN a township Imperial
TRECEFEL a township Imperial
TREFLYNN 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 Caron Is Clawdd 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.
George Borrow Strata Florida and Tregaron 20
George Borrow Lampeter 3
George Borrow Llandovery 2
William Camden Rest of Wales 1
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 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
Blaencaron 0 2
Penarth 0 2
Ystrad 0 2
Argoed 0 2
Carfan 0 1
Prysg 0 2
Llanio 0 2
Llanddewi Brefi 7 2
Swydd Ffynnon 0 2
Ystrad 0 2
Garth 0 2
Gwynfil 0 2
Llanbadarn Odwyn 0 2
Pontrhydfendigaid 0 2
Caron Uwch Clawdd 11 3
Gorwydd 0 2
Ystradmeurig 0 3
Gogoean 0 2
Llangeitho 0 2
Blaenpennal 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CARON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CARON YS CLAWDD John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
TREGARON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
George Borrow Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery (Oxford, Mississippi, 1996).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
TREGARRON John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).

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.