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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wrexham. You may be able to find further references to Wrexham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | WREXHAM | a town, two townships, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | Wrexham Abbot and Wrexham Regis | 2 townships | Bartholomew | WREXHAM AND MINERA RAILWAY | a mineral railway | Imperial | WREXHAM, MOLD, and CONNAHS-QUAY RAILWAY | a railway-system | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wrexham.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Abenburyfawr | township | Bartholomew | ABENBURY-FAWR | a township | Imperial | ACTON | a township | Imperial | Bersham | township and ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | BERSHAM | a township and a chapelry | Imperial | Bieston | township | Bartholomew | BIESTON | a township | Imperial | BORRAS-HOVAH | a township | Imperial | Broughton | township | Bartholomew | BROUGHTON | a township | Imperial | Brymbo | township with railway station | Bartholomew | BRYMBO | a township and a chapelry | Imperial | Bwlch Gwyn | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | ESCLUSHAM (Above and Below) | two townships | Imperial | Esclusham Above and Esclusham Below | 2 townships | Bartholomew | Gourton | township | Bartholomew | GOURTON | a township | Imperial | GWERSYLLT | a village and a township | Imperial | MINERA | a village, a township, and a chapelry | Imperial | Stansty | township | Bartholomew | STANSTY | a township | Imperial |
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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 Wrexham 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 | To Wrexham | 18 | George Borrow | Wrexham and Llangollen | 10 | George Borrow | Departure for South Wales | 4 | George Borrow | Around Anglesey (2) | 3 | George Borrow | Rhyadr waterfall | 3 | William Camden | Rest of Wales | 2 | George Borrow | To Ruthin | 1 | George Borrow | Over the Berwyns | 1 | George Borrow | Llangollen Again | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland | 1 | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire | 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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Acton | 0 | 2 |
Bromfield | 0 | 2 |
Stansty | 0 | 2 |
Erddig | 0 | 2 |
Erlas | 0 | 2 |
Abenbury | 0 | 4 |
Bieston | 0 | 2 |
Marchwiail | 0 | 2 |
Borras Riffri | 0 | 2 |
Gourton | 0 | 2 |
Broughton | 0 | 2 |
Esclusham | 0 | 2 |
Bers | 0 | 2 |
Borras Hwfa | 0 | 2 |
Gwersyllt | 0 | 2 |
Coedpoeth | 0 | 1 |
Gresford | 0 | 2 |
Llay | 0 | 2 |
Royton | 0 | 2 |
Ridley | 0 | 2 |