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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Builth Wells. You may be able to find further references to Builth Wells in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Builth | hundred | Bartholomew | BUILTH | a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred | Imperial | Builth Wells | station | Bartholomew | Llanfair in Buallt | Bartholomew |
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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 Builth Wells 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 | 10 | William Camden | Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan | 4 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales | 4 | Robert Gammage | Touring South Wales | 4 | Charles Wesley | May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland | 3 | Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland | 2 | Charles Wesley | 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne | 2 | Gerald of Wales | Book I, Ch. 1: Hereford and Radnor | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan: 15 - Apr. 29, 1748: Ireland, Wales and meeting future wife | 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 |
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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 Hist. Gazetteer |
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Llanddewir Cwm | 0 | 2 |
Llanelwedd | 0 | 2 |
Rhosferig | 0 | 2 |
Llanfaredd | 0 | 2 |
Cwmbach Llechryd | 1 | 1 |
Allt Mawr | 0 | 2 |
Llanganten | 0 | 2 |
Llanynys | 0 | 2 |
Maesmynys | 8 | 2 |
Llangynog | 0 | 2 |
Aberedw | 0 | 2 |
Llansanffraid Yn Elfael | 0 | 2 |
Llanafan Fechan | 0 | 3 |
Gwenddwr | 0 | 2 |
Cregrina | 0 | 2 |
Llanbadarn Y Garreg | 0 | 2 |
Colwyn | 0 | 2 |
Disserth | 0 | 2 |
Newbridge on Wye | 0 | 2 |
Howey | 0 | 2 |