Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
BANGOR	a city, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GARTH	a village	Imperial
Hirael	village	Bartholomew
HIRAEL	a village	Imperial
TYNLON	a village	Imperial
Tynton	village	Bartholomew

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 Bangor 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	Cerrigydruidion to Bangor	12
George Borrow	Bangor, Anglesey and Snowdon	11
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (4)	6
George Borrow	To Beddgelert	6
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (1)	5
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (3)	3
William Camden	Rest of Wales	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	3
George Borrow	Llangollen to Cerrigydruidion	2
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (2)	2
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 6: Lleyn and Bangor	2
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	2
Gerald of Wales	Introduction	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 5: Merioneth	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 8: Conway	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	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
Hirael	0	2
Garth	0	2
Port Penrhyn	0	1
Penrhyn Castle	0	2
Menai Bridge	2	2
Llandysilio	0	2
Llandegfan	0	2
Tal Y Bont	0	2
Pentir	0	2
Britannia Bridge	0	2
Llanfair Pwllgwyngll	0	2
Llansadwrn	0	2
Beaumaris	7	2
Llan Faes	1	2
Llanddeiniolen	0	3
Llaniestyn	0	2
Llanedwen	0	2
Dinorwic	0	4
Bethesda	0	2
Penmynydd	0	2