Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LLANTRISAINT	a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cymmer	village	Bartholomew
Dinas	village	Bartholomew
DINAS	a village	Imperial
Talygarn	curacy	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 Llantrisant 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.
Charles Wesley	Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales	1
Charles Wesley	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	1
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	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
Tonyrefail	0	2
Llanharan	0	2
Peterston super Montem	0	3
Cymmer	0	2
Pont Y Clun	0	1
Trehafod	0	3
Hopkinstown	0	1
Llantwit Fardre	0	3
Porth	0	2
Llanilid	0	2
Miskin	0	2
Llanhari	0	2
Treforest	0	2
Talygarn	0	2
Pen Y Graig	0	1
Pont Y Pridd	0	3
Glyntaff	0	2
Rhydyborthan	0	2
Dinas	0	2
Gilfach Goch	0	1