New Radnor, Radnorshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
New Radnor railway station Bartholomew
Radnor hundred Bartholomew
RADNOR a sub-district and a hundred Imperial
Radnor, New ancient borough and parish with railway station Bartholomew
RADNOR (New) a town and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
HARPTON (UPPER) 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 New Radnor 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.
William Camden Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan 6
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 1: Hereford and Radnor 3
William Gilpin To the source of the Wye 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 Historical Gazetteer
Harpton 0 2
Wolfpits 0 1
Kinnerton 0 3
Ednol 0 1
Llanfihangel Nant Melan 0 2
Old Radnor 3 2
Trewern 0 2
Weythel 0 2
Cascob 0 2
Burlingjobb 0 1
Walton 0 3
Gwaithla 0 2
Evancoyd 0 2
Newcastle 0 2
Evenjobb 0 2
Lower Harpton 0 2
Gladestry 0 2
Graig 0 2
Disgoed 0 2
Bleddfa 0 3

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for New Radnor. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
MAES HYVED John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MAISEVETH William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
NEW RADNOR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
RADNOR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Gerald of Wales The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales (Oxford, Mississippi, 1997).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
RADNOR NEW John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.