Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
NEWTOWN	a town, 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 Newtown.

Place	Type of entry	Source
DYFFRIN-LLANFAIR	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 Newtown 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.
Robert Gammage	Touring the Welsh border in 1852 and 1853	4
Robert Gammage	Touring South Wales	2
William Camden	Rest of Wales	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
Dyffryn Llanfair	0	2
Llanllwchaearn	0	2
Aberbechan	0	2
Llanmerewig	0	2
Betws Cedewain	0	3
Penystrywaid	0	2
Brynllywarch	0	2
Dolfor	0	2
Ceri	0	2
Gwernesgob	0	2
Abermule	0	2
Aberhafesb	0	2
Dolforwyn	0	2
Llanfechan	0	1
Tregynon	0	2
Penygelli	0	1
Moat Lane	0	2
Aberhale	0	2
Mochdre	0	3
Llandysul	0	2