Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CAERLEON	a small town and a subdistrict	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 Caerleon 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	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	7
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 5: Usk and Caerleon	3
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	3
William Camden	Rest of Wales	3
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 1: Saint David's	2
William Camden	Romans in Britaine (2)	2
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	2
George Borrow	Wrexham and Llangollen	1
George Borrow	Conclusion: Newport and Chepstow	1
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 4: Coed Grono and Abergevenni	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 4: Strata Florida	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 12: Oswestry and Shrewsbury	1
William Camden	Kent	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
Caerleon Ultra Pontem	0	2
Llangattock	0	2
Christchurch	0	2
Llanhenwg	0	1
Maindee	0	2
Llanfrechfa	0	2
Malpas	0	2
Langstone	0	3
Newport	61	4
Llan Wern	0	2
Pillgwenlly	0	2
Cemais	0	2
Tredunnock	0	2
St Woolloos	0	1
Betws	0	2
Llandegveth	0	2
Llanthewy Vach	0	2
Llanfihangel Llantarnam	0	2
Llantarnam	0	1
Llanfarthin	0	1