Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Usk	hundred	Bartholomew
Usk	river	Bartholomew
Usk	parliamentary borough	Bartholomew
USK (The)	a river	Imperial

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Glascoed	township	Bartholomew
GLASCOED	a hamlet	Imperial
Gwehellog	township	Bartholomew
GWEHELLOG	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 Usk 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	Monmouth to Llandovery	7
William Camden	Hereford, Radnor, Brecon, Monmouth and Glamorgan	5
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 5: Usk and Caerleon	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	2
William Gilpin	Llandovery to Llandeilo	2
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 4: Coed Grono and Abergevenni	1
Charles Wesley	1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne	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
Llangeview	0	2
Llanbadog	0	2
Gwehelog Fawr	0	2
Llanllywel	0	2
Gwernesney	0	2
Monkswood	0	2
Trostre	0	2
Llangybi Fawr	0	2
Llangwm	0	2
Llandenny	0	2
Cemais Comawndwr	0	2
Llantrissent	0	2
Glasgoed	0	2
Coed Y Paen	0	1
Betws Newydd	0	2
Llandegveth	0	2
Llan Soe	0	2
Tredunnock	0	2
Rhaglan	4	3
Llanthewy Vach	0	2