Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CORWEN	a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
CORWEN AND BALA RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bodorlas	township	Bartholomew
BODORLAS	a township	Imperial
Carrog	place	Bartholomew
CARROG	a township, with a r station	Imperial
DOL-AC-ABERALWEN	a township	Imperial
Eglwyseg (or Eglwysegle)	hamlet	Bartholomew
GLYNDWRDY, or Glyndyfrdwg	a chapelry	Imperial
Glyndyfrdwy	ecclesiastical district and hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
Hendreforfydd	hamlet	Bartholomew
HENDREFORFYDD	a township	Imperial
LLYGADOG	a township	Imperial
MWSTWR	a township	Imperial
OWEN-GLYNDWR	a demesne	Imperial
RHAGGATT	a township	Imperial
TIRLLANERCH	a township	Imperial
TREWYN	a township	Imperial
YCHYLDREF	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 Corwen 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	Llangollen to Cerrigydruidion	3
George Borrow	Llangollen Again	2
George Borrow	Wrexham and Llangollen	1
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (2)	1
George Borrow	Bala to Llangollen	1
George Borrow	To Wrexham	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
Carrog	0	2
Bodorlas	0	2
Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy	0	2
Trewyn	0	1
Owen Glyndwr	0	1
Bryn Tangor	0	2
Bryn	0	2
Glyndyfrdwy	0	2
Llangar	0	2
Gwyddelwern	0	2
Maesgamedd	0	1
Cynwyd	0	2
Edeirnion	0	2
Gwrthrina	0	2
Bryneglwys	0	2
Llanelidan	0	2
Llantysilio	1	3
Llansanffraid Glynceiriog	6	2
Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog	3	2
Llawr Y Bettws	0	3