Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Neath	hundred	Bartholomew
Neath	river	Bartholomew
NEATH	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
NEATH and BRECON railway	a railway	Imperial
Neath Canal	canal	Bartholomew
NEATH CANAL	a canal	Imperial
Neath, Lower, Middle, and Upper	3 townships	Bartholomew
NEATH (Lower, Middle, and Upper)	Three hamlets	Imperial
NEATH railway (Vale of)	a railway	Imperial
NEATH (The)	a river	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 Neath 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	Neath and Merthyr	12
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	4
William Gilpin	Llandeilo to Neath	3
William Gilpin	Neath to Pyle	2
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 8: Swansea and Gower	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	1
Robert Gammage	Touring South 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
Briton Ferry	0	2
Neath Abbey	0	2
Baglan	0	3
Skewen	0	2
Llantwit Juxta Neath	0	3
Cadoxton Juxta Neath	0	2
Coed Ffranc	0	2
Dyffrynclydach	0	2
Aberdulais	0	2
Michaelstone super Avon	0	4
Cwmavon	0	2
Blaenhonddan	0	2
Pontrhydfen	0	2
Aberafan	2	2
Tonna	0	1
Llansamlet	0	2
Ynysymwn	0	3
Taibach	0	2
Port Tennant	0	2
Hafod Y Porth	0	1