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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Caerphilly. You may be able to find further references to Caerphilly in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Caerphilly | town with railway station | Bartholomew | Caerphilly | hundred | Bartholomew |
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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 Caerphilly 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 | Conclusion: Newport and Chepstow | 9 | George Borrow | Neath and Merthyr | 2 | William Camden | Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan | 1 | John Wesley | 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy | 1 |
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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 |
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Eglwysilan | 0 | 2 |
Energlyn | 0 | 2 |
Lower Bedwas | 0 | 1 |
Llanfabon | 0 | 2 |
Nantgarw | 0 | 2 |
Rhydyborthan | 0 | 2 |
Ystradmynach | 0 | 3 |
Glyntaff | 0 | 2 |
Van | 0 | 2 |
Bedwas | 1 | 2 |
Treforest | 0 | 2 |
Pont Y Pridd | 0 | 3 |
Garth | 0 | 2 |
Llantwit Fardre | 0 | 3 |
Ynysddu | 0 | 1 |
Hengoed | 0 | 2 |
Garth | 0 | 2 |
Nelson | 0 | 2 |
Taffs Well | 0 | 2 |
Cefn | 0 | 2 |