We could not match "BEDWAS" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 13 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  BEDWAS LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BEDWAS AND MACHEN UD (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BEDWAS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bedwas	Monmouthshire	Bedwas , par. with ry. sta., Monmouthsh., and part in Glamorgan, 2 miles NE. of Caerphilly, 5057 ac., pop. 1782; contains	Bartholomew
  BEDWAS	Monmouthshire	BEDWAS , a village and two hamlets in Newport district, Monmouth; and a parish partly also in Cardiff district, Glamorgan. The village	Imperial
  CAERPHILLY	Glamorgan	Bedwas, and was constituted in 1850. Pop., 1,193. Houses, 264. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff	Imperial
  CARDIFF	Glamorgan	Bedwas; the subdistrict of Llantrisaint, containing the parishes of Llantrisaint, Llantwitvairdre, Pentyrch, Pendoylan, St. Bride-super-Ely, Peterstone-super-Ely, and the parochial	Imperial
  LLANDAFF	Glamorgan	Bedwas, and the p. curacies of Aberystruth Abertillery, Beaufort, Nantyglo, Bedwelty, Cwmgelli, Mynyddyslwyn, Abercarne, Penmaen, Llanhilleth, Rhymney, Tredegar, and Ebbw	Imperial
  Lower Bedwas	Monmouthshire	Lower Bedwas , hamlet, Bed was par., Monmouthshire, 1 mile SW. of Bedwas sta.	Bartholomew
  MONMOUTHSHIRE, or MONMOUTH	Monmouthshire	Bedwas; and alluvial deposits form the tract of the Caldicott and the Wentlooge Levels. Mica and lead ore are found	Imperial
  MYNYDDYSLWYN	Monmouthshire	Abercarn.—The sub-district contains also Machen parish, and twohamlets of Bedwas. Acres, 25, 311. Pop., 10, 596. Houses, 2, 147.	Imperial
  NEWPORT	Monmouthshire	Bedwas, Upper Bedwas, Lower Machen, Upper Machen, and Rhydgwern, the last electorally in Glamorgan; and the sub-district of Caerleon	Imperial
  RUDDRY	Glamorgan	living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Bedwas, in the diocese of Llan-daff. The church is not good.	Imperial
  Van (or Fan)	Glamorgan	Van (or Fan ), township, Bedwas par., Glamorgan, near Caerphilly, 862 ac., pop. 251.	Bartholomew
  VAN, or Fan	Glamorgan	VAN , or Fan, a hamlet in Bedwas parish, Glamorgan: near Caerphilly. Acres, 825. Pop., 62 Houses, 11.	Imperial

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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