Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Machynlleth	hundred	Bartholomew
MACHYNLLETH	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DOLL	a village	Imperial
Garsion	village	Bartholomew
GARSION	a village	Imperial
Isygarreg	township	Bartholomew
ISYGARREG, or ISCARNEG	a township	Imperial
UCHYGARREG	a township	Imperial
Uchygarreg (or Uwchygarreg)	township	Bartholomew
UWCHYGARREG	a township	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 Machynlleth 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.
George Borrow	Machynlleth	19
George Borrow	The Plynlimmon Range	3
William Camden	Rest of Wales	2
George Borrow	Introduction; Norfolk to Chester	1
George Borrow	Bala to Dinas Mawddwy	1
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	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
Llanfechan	0	1
Isygarreg	0	2
Pennal	1	2
Caerseddfan	0	2
Ysgubor Y Coed	0	2
Llanwrin	0	2
Uwchygarreg	0	4
Corris	0	2
Eglwys Fach	0	2
Darowen	0	2
Noddfa	0	2
Maestrefnant	0	1
Blaenglesyrch	0	2
Penegoes	0	2
Cedris	0	2
Abergynolwyn	0	2
Tal Y Llyn	1	2
Llanfihangel Y Pennant	0	2
Ystradgwyn	0	1
Llangynfelyn	0	2