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The following appear as names for Gower. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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GOWER | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). | |
GOWER OR GWYR | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
GWYR | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Gower. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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GLAMORGANSHIRE GOWER | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Constituency (CCon) | Boundary Commission for England, First Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1954) | |
GLAMORGANSHIRE WESTERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
GLAMORGANSHIRE WESTERN OR GOWER | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
GOWER | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) | |
Local Government District (RD) | M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 79. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | Statement of the Names of the Several Unions and Poor Law Parishes of England and Wales; and of the Population, Area, and Rateable Value thereof in 1881 (155) | |
Registration sub-District | British Parliamentary Papers | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'. | |
GOWER EASTERN | Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. |
GOWER WESTERN | Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. |
W541412 | Local Government District (RD) | |
WESTERN GLAMORGANSHIRE | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Gower, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Gower, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gower, in Swansea and Glamorgan | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20088/names
Date accessed: 27th April 2024