Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Llanandras		Bartholomew
PRESTEIGNE	a town	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Discoed, or Discoyd	township	Bartholomew
DISCOED, or Discoyd	a township	Imperial
LITTON AND CASCOB	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 Presteign 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	3

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
Nash	0	2
Stapleton	0	2
Rodd	0	2
Little Brampton	0	2
Disgoed	0	2
Norton	0	2
Knill	0	2
Evenjobb	0	2
Willey	0	2
Combe	0	2
Evancoyd	0	2
Newcastle	0	2
Whitton	0	2
Kinsham	0	4
Titley	0	2
Eywood	0	2
Litton	0	2
Staunton on Arrow	0	3
Lower Harpton	0	2
Walton	0	3