Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CARMARTHEN	a town, a parish, a subdistrict and a district	Imperial
CARMARTHEN and CARDIGAN RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Llanllwch	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LLANLLWCH	a chapelry	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 Carmarthen 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	6
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	6
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 10: Carmarthen	5
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	4
George Borrow	Tom O' the Dingle	2
George Borrow	Llandovery	2
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 8: Conway	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	2
George Borrow	Machynlleth	1
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 6: Newport and Cardiff	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 10: Flintshire	1
Charles Wesley	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	1
Thomas Pennant	Stone to Stafford	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
Johnstown	0	2
Llanllwch	0	2
Pensarn	0	1
Newchurch	0	2
Merthyr	0	2
Llan Gain	0	2
Iddole	0	2
Llangynnwr	0	3
Abergwili	1	2
Llangynog	0	2
Llandyfaelog	0	2
Hengil	0	2
Rhyd Ar Gaeau	0	2
Aber Nant	0	2
Llanpumsaint	0	2
Iscoed	0	4
Meidrum	0	3
Ystrad	0	2
Llanybri	0	2
Llanfihangel Uwch Gwili	0	1