Penmaen Mawr, Caernarvonshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Penmaenmawr village with railway station Bartholomew
PENMAEN-MAWR a place 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 Penmaen Mawr 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.
John Wesley 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions 2
William Camden Rest of Wales 1
William Camden Smaller Islands in the British Ocean 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland 1
Thomas Pennant August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness 1
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South 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
Dwygyfylchi 0 2
Y Gyffin 0 2
Llangelynnin 0 2
Llanfairfechan 0 2
Conway 9 4
Isaf 0 2
Deganwy 0 2
Llan Rhos 0 3
Llandudno Junction 0 2
Trallwyn 0 1
Llanbedrycennin 0 2
Caerhun 3 2
Llechwedd Isaf 0 1
Gogarth 0 2
Llandudno 0 2
Aber 0 2
Bodnod 0 2
Llangystennin 0 2
Great Ormes Head 0 2
Llansanffraid Glan Conway 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
PEN MAEN MAUR William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
PENMAEN MAWR John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
PENMAENMAWR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
PENMAWWYR Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
PENMEN MUIR Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
PENMENMUIR Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
PENNAEN MAUR 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.