Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aberconway		Bartholomew
CONWAY	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
CONWAY (The)	a river	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bodafon	place with public school	Bartholomew

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 Conway 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 Camden	Rest of Wales	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	2
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 10: Flintshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	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
Deganwy	0	2
Llan Rhos	0	3
Llandudno Junction	0	2
Y Gyffin	0	2
Llandudno	0	2
Llangystennin	0	2
Creuddyn	0	2
Penrhyn	0	1
Trallwyn	0	1
Gogarth	0	2
Llangelynnin	0	2
Mochdre	0	2
Dwygyfylchi	0	2
Penmaen Mawr	7	2
Llansanffraid Glan Conway	0	2
Great Ormes Head	0	2
Bodnod	0	2
Llandrillo Yn Rhos	0	2
Cilgwyn	0	2
Colwyn Bay	0	1