Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
CARNARVON	a town, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial
CARNARVON RAILWAYS	four railways	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 Caernarfon 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	Bangor, Anglesey and Snowdon	8
George Borrow	To Beddgelert	8
William Camden	Rest of Wales	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales	2
George Borrow	Introduction; Norfolk to Chester	1
George Borrow	Around Anglesey (4)	1
Gerald of Wales	Book II, Ch. 6: Lleyn and Bangor	1
Charles Wesley	Jan: 15 - Apr. 29, 1748: Ireland, Wales and meeting future wife	1
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	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
Llanbeblig	0	2
Castellmai	0	2
Bont Newydd	0	2
Llanfaglan	0	2
Llanfair Is Gaer	0	2
Waun Fawr	0	2
Llangeinwen	0	2
Brynsiencyn	0	2
Llanrug	0	2
Llanwnda	0	2
Llanidan	0	2
Llanfair Cwmmwd	0	2
Bethesda	0	2
Dinorwic	0	4
Gwyrfai	0	2
Cwm Y Glo	0	2
Capel Cadwaladr	0	1
Penisar Waun	0	2
Llanddeiniolen	0	3