Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Knighton hundred Bartholomew
KNIGHTON a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cwmgilla hamlet Bartholomew
CWMGILLA a township Imperial
Farrington lordship 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 Knighton 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 2

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
Farrington 0 2
Pilleth 0 2
Stowe 0 3
Whitton 0 2
Norton 0 2
Stanage 0 2
Knucklas 0 2
Heyop 0 3
Litton 0 2
Willey 0 2
Boresford and Pedwardine 0 2
Disgoed 0 2
Teme 0 2
Brampton Bryan 4 3
Presteign 3 3
Llangynllo 0 2
Stapleton 0 2
Bleddfa 0 3
Bucknell 0 2
Llanfair Waterdine 0 2