Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Builth	hundred	Bartholomew
BUILTH	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred	Imperial
Builth Wells	station	Bartholomew
Llanfair in Buallt		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 Builth Wells 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 Gilpin	To the source of the Wye	10
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	4
Robert Gammage	Touring South Wales	4
Charles Wesley	May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland	3
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	2
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	2
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 1: Hereford and Radnor	1
Charles Wesley	Jan: 15 - Apr. 29, 1748: Ireland, Wales and meeting future wife	1
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions	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
Llanddewir Cwm	0	2
Llanelwedd	0	2
Rhosferig	0	2
Llanfaredd	0	2
Cwmbach Llechryd	1	1
Allt Mawr	0	2
Llanganten	0	2
Llanynys	0	2
Maesmynys	8	2
Llangynog	0	2
Aberedw	0	2
Llansanffraid Yn Elfael	0	2
Llanafan Fechan	0	3
Gwenddwr	0	2
Cregrina	0	2
Llanbadarn Y Garreg	0	2
Colwyn	0	2
Disserth	0	2
Newbridge on Wye	0	2
Howey	0	2