Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aberdare parish and market town Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
CEFNPENNAR a hamlet Imperial
CWMDARE a hamlet Imperial
FORCHAMAN a hamlet Imperial
HIRWAIN a village and a chapelry Imperial
LLWYDCOED a hamlet 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 Aberdar 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.
John Wesley 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy 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
Cynon 0 2
Cwmdare 0 2
Aberaman 0 2
Forchaman 0 1
Cwmaman 0 1
Llwydcoed 0 2
Cefnpennar 0 2
Maerdy 0 1
Hirwaun 0 2
Ferndale 0 1
Gellideg 0 2
Cyfarthfa 0 2
Treorchy 0 1
Cefn Coed 0 2
Treherbert 0 2
Tylorstown 0 1
Rhondda 0 8
Pentrebach 0 2
Merthyr Tudful 0 4
Ystrad Rhondda 0 3