36 results filtered with: Wales - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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A tour round North Wales, performed during the summer of 1798: containing not only the description and local history of the country, but also, a sketch of the history of the Welsh Bards; An essay on the language; Observations on the manners and customs; and the habitats of above 400 of the more rare native plants; intended as a guide to future tourists. By the Rev. W. Bingley, B.A. F.L.S. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Illustrated with views in aquatinta by Alken. In two volumes. ...
Bingley, William, 1774-1823.Date: [1800]- Books
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The traveller's companion, in a tour through England and Wales; containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, Plantations, Scenes, and Situations, in England and Wales, arranged According to the Alphabetical Order of the several Counties; by the late Mr. Gray, Author of the Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard, &c. To which are now added, considerable improvements and additions, by Thomas Northmore Esq.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.Date: [1799]- Books
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An account of some of the most romantic parts of North Wales.
Cradock, Joseph, 1742-1826.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A new and accurate description of the present great roads and the principal cross roads of England and Wales, commencing at London, and continued to the farthest Parts of the Kingdom, with the several Branches leading out of them; and a Description of the several Towns that stand thereon. Divided into Four Parts, Viz. Western, Northern, Eastern, and Southern. To which are added, the ancient Roman roads and stations in Britain. Also Some General Rules to know the Original of the Names of Places in England, a List of Mitred Abbots, and an Alphabetical List of Fairs regulated according to the New Style.
Date: 1756- Books
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A second walk through Wales, by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath. In August and September 1798.
Warner, Richard, 1763-1857.Date: 1799- Books
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Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770, second edition. By William Gilpin, M. A. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New Forest, near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, newly design'd by Mr. Robert Morden, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the Best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon Markets are kept, Hundreds, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what Proportion each Country pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopticks, Bishopricks, Cathedrals, Parish-Churches, Schools, Hospitals, Roads and Distances, Roman Ways, Post-Towns, Men of Note, Memorable Battles and Actions, the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, an Account of Fairs, &c.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1704- Books
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The Head of the Rock, a Welsh landskip. Being a prospect near Abergwilly Palace, the residence of the Bishop of St. Davids, in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen. By William Williams, of Pembrokeshire; late of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Williams, William, -1785.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770, second edition, by William Gilpin, M. A. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New Forest, Near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Chorographia Britanniæ. Or a new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales: to which are prefix'd the following general maps, ... By Thos. Badeslade surveyor. & engrav'd by W. H. Toms.
Badeslade, Thomas.Date: [1742?]- Books
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Dean Swift's ghost.
W. R. (William Richards), 1643-1705.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]