Rhaeadr, Radnorshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Rhayader hundred Bartholomew
Rhayader market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
RHAYADER a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dyffryn Clerwen school Bartholomew

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 Rhaeadr 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 Gilpin To the source of the Wye 7
William Camden Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan 2
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 1: Hereford and Radnor 1
Charles Wesley May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 1
Robert Gammage Touring South Wales 1
John Wesley 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy 1
John Wesley 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions 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
Gwrtheyrnion 4 0
Nantmel 0 2
St Harmon 1 2
Nant Gwyllt 0 1
Elan 0 5
Powys 0 2
Llansanffraid Cwmteuddwr 0 2
Caerfagu 0 2
Cenarth 0 2
Llanfihangel Helygen 0 2
Llanwrthwl 0 2
Golon 0 2
Llanllyr 0 2
Abaty Cwm Hir 0 2
Llysdinam 0 2
Newbridge on Wye 0 2
Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan 0 2
Trefonnen 0 1
Cellws 0 2
Cefnllys 1 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
RAIDERGWY Gerald of Wales The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales (Oxford, Mississippi, 1997).
RAIHADER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
RAIHADER GOWY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
RAYDOR Charles Wesley The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1849).
RHAADER William Gilpin Observations of the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (London: Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1800).
RHAIADR GWY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
RHAYADER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Charles Wesley The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1849).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
RHAYADER GWY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
RHAYADR Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
RHAYDER Robert Gammage 'Recollections of a Chartist', in the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1883-5).
ROYADER 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.