Holyhead, Anglesey : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Llanstephan parish Bartholomew
LLANSTEPHAN a village and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
LAQUES a village Imperial
LLANYBREE a chapelry, with 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 Llansteffan 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 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 2
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 10: Carmarthen 1
William Camden Rest of Wales 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland 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
Llanybri 0 2
Laques 0 2
Ferryside 0 2
Ystrad 0 2
Llandilo Abercowin 0 2
Iscoed 0 4
St Ishmael 0 2
Llangynog 0 2
Treforis 0 2
Llan Saint 0 1
Laugharne 5 3
Llan Gain 0 2
Llandawke 0 2
Llanfihangel Abercowin 0 2
Llansadurnen 0 2
Llandyfaelog 0 2
Pentre 0 2
Llanddowror 1 2
St Clears 8 2
Llanllwch 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LANSTAFFEN Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
LANSTEFFAN John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
LANSTEPHAN Gerald of Wales The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales (Oxford, Mississippi, 1997).
LHAN STEPHAN William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
LLANSTEFFANS John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
LLANSTEPHAN 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).

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.