Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
CARDIFF a town, two parishes, a subdistrict, and a district 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 Cardiff 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.
Charles Wesley Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again 13
George Borrow Neath and Merthyr 5
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 6: Newport and Cardiff 5
Charles Wesley Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales 4
William Camden Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan 3
Charles Wesley 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales 3
John Wesley 1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield 3
John Wesley 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy 3
George Borrow Conclusion: Newport and Chepstow 2
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands 2
Charles Wesley May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall 2
Charles Wesley Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales 2
Charles Wesley 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales 2
William Gilpin Bridgend to Bristol 2
William Camden Wiltshire and Hampshire 1
Charles Wesley May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall 1
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland 1
Robert Gammage Touring South Wales 1
John Wesley 1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales 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 Hist. Gazetteer
Tredegarville 0 2
Roath 0 2
Grangetown 0 2
Butetown 0 2
Gabalfa 0 2
Canton 0 2
Llandaff 12 2
Lecwith 0 2
Ely 0 2
Llandough Juxta Penarth 0 2
Rumney 0 2
Llanishen 4 2
Llanedern 0 2
Michaelston le Pit 1 2
Caerau 0 4
Whitchurch 1 2
Penarth 0 2
Lisvane 0 2
Radur 0 2
Dinas Powys 0 2