Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
St Clears small town 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 St Clears 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.
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 5
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 2
Gerald of Wales Book I, Ch. 10: Carmarthen 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
Pentre 0 2
Llanfihangel Abercowin 0 2
Derllys 0 2
Llangynin 0 2
Meidrum 0 3
Llandilo Abercowin 0 2
Llandawke 0 2
Llanddowror 1 2
Llangynog 0 2
Laugharne 5 3
Llansadurnen 0 2
Llanybri 0 2
Eglwys Gymyn 0 2
Whitland 0 3
Cyffic 0 3
Llansteffan 4 2
Laques 0 2
Merthyr 0 2
Llanboidy 0 2
Cwmfelin Boeth 0 2