Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
ANGLESEY		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 Anglesey 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	21
William Camden	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	15
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 7: Anglesey	9
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	5
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 9: Snowdonia	2
Charles Wesley	May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland	2
Gerald of Wales	Introduction	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 6: Lleyn and Bangor	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 8: Conway	1
William Camden	Ireland (1)	1
George Head	South from Douglas	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
Bodwrog	0	2
Llangwyllog	0	2
Heneglwys	0	2
Coedana	0	2
Llandrygarn	0	2
Gwalchmai	0	2
Llechgynfarwy	0	2
Tregaean	0	3
Trewalchmai	0	2
Cerrigceinwen	0	2
Llannerch Y Medd	0	2
Llangefni	0	2
Llanbeulan	0	2
Llanfihangel Trer Bardd	0	2
Rhodogeidio	0	2
Llantrisant	0	2
Llifon	0	2
Llangristiolus	0	2
Holyrood Church	0	2
Tregarnedd	0	1