Usk, Monmouthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Usk hundred Bartholomew
Usk river Bartholomew
Usk parliamentary borough Bartholomew
USK a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred Imperial
USK (The) a river Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Glascoed township Bartholomew
GLASCOED a hamlet Imperial
Gwehellog township Bartholomew
GWEHELLOG a hamlet 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 Usk 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 Monmouth to Llandovery 7
William Camden Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan 5
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 5: Usk and Caerleon 2
Charles Wesley Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales 2
William Gilpin Llandovery to Llandeilo 2
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 4: Coed Grono and Abergevenni 1
Charles Wesley 1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne 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
Llangeview 0 2
Llanbadog 0 2
Gwehelog Fawr 0 2
Llanllywel 0 2
Gwernesney 0 2
Monkswood 0 2
Trostre 0 2
Llangybi Fawr 0 2
Llangwm 0 2
Llandenny 0 2
Cemais Comawndwr 0 2
Llantrissent 0 2
Glasgoed 0 2
Coed Y Paen 0 1
Betws Newydd 0 2
Llandegveth 0 2
Llan Soe 0 2
Tredunnock 0 2
Rhaglan 4 3
Llanthewy Vach 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BRUNEBEGY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BRYNBEGA John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BURENBEGIE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CAER USKE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
CASTRUM OSCAE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
THE USK John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
USK John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
USKE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
USK THE 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.