Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
DAVIDS (St.)	a city, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CARVARCHELL	a village	Imperial
Carvarchill	village	Bartholomew
CYLCH-GWYLOD-Y-WLAD	a division	Imperial
CYLCH-MAWR	a division	Imperial
CYLCH-Y-DRE	a division	Imperial
HENDREDRAW	a village	Imperial
RAMSEY	an island	Imperial
Ramsey Island	island	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 St Davids 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	Rest of Wales	10
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 1: Saint David's	7
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	4
Gerald of Wales	Introduction	3
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 5: Usk and Caerleon	3
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 13: Camros and Newgale	2
Gerald of Wales	Book II: Preface	2
George Borrow	Rheidol Valley	1
George Borrow	Lampeter	1
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 8: Swansea and Gower	1
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 11: Haverford West	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 4: Strata Florida	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 7: Anglesey	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	1
William Camden	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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
Solfach	0	2
Whitchurch	1	3
Llanhywel	0	2
St Elvis	0	2
Ramsey Island	0	2
Llanrhian	0	3
Llandeloy	0	2
Llanrheithan	0	3
Trevine	0	3
Brawdy	0	2
Dewisland	0	2
South Bishop Lighthouse	0	1
Mathri	1	2
Roch	0	3
St Edrens	0	2
St Lawrence	0	2
Nolton	0	2
Granston	0	2
Hayscastle	0	2
Druidston	0	2