Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wenvoe (or Wenfoe)	parish	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 Wenvoe 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	Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again	5
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	3
Charles Wesley	Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands	1
Charles Wesley	May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall	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
St Lythans	0	2
Dyffryn	0	3
Merthyr Dovan	0	2
Highlight	0	2
St Nicholas	2	2
Cadoxton Juxta Barry	0	2
Michaelston le Pit	1	2
St Andrews Major	1	2
Caerau	0	4
Michaelston super Ely	0	2
St George super Ely	0	2
Y Barri	5	2
Dinas Powys	0	2
Lecwith	0	2
Bonvilston	0	2
Sully	2	2
Ely	0	2
Llandough Juxta Penarth	0	2
St Fagans	0	2
Cogan	0	2