Chepstow, Monmouthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Chepstow market town, river-port, and parish, with railway station Bartholomew
CHEPSTOW a 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 Chepstow.

Place Type of entry Source
Hardwick hamlet Bartholomew
HARDWICK a hamlet Imperial
Poolmerick village Bartholomew
POOLMERICK a village 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 Chepstow 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 Conclusion: Newport and Chepstow 9
William Camden Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan 6
William Gilpin Tintern to Chepstow 3
Henry Vincent Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes 3
Henry Vincent Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 2
William Gilpin To the source of the Wye 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 1
William Gilpin The Wye 1
John Wesley 1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales 1
John Wesley 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 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
Hardwick 0 2
Pwll Meyrick 0 2
St Kinmarks 0 1
Beachley 1 2
Mounton 0 2
Matherne 0 2
St Pierre 0 2
Piercefield 4 2
Howick 0 2
St Arvans 0 3
Runston 0 1
Lancaut 0 2
Tidenham 1 2
Aust 6 2
Blackrock 0 2
Portskewett 2 3
Crick 0 2
Itton 0 2
Littleton upon Severn 0 2
Sudbrook 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CASTLE WENT William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CHEPSTOW 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).
ESTRIGHILL William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
STRIGHULL William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
STRUGLE 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.