History of Llanwrthwl, in Powys and Brecknockshire

Place:

Llanwrthwl Brecknockshire

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Llanwrthwl. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Llanwrthwl. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
ADMINISTERED BY RHAYADER RD	Local Government District (RD)	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'.
AREA ADMINISTERED BY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF RHAYADER RADNOR	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
AREA ADMINISTERED BY THE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF RHAYADER RADNORSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Tenements in the Occupation of Private Families. - Classified by Number of Rooms and by Numbers of Occupants, in each Administrative County and in the Aggregates of Urban Districts (exclusive of County Boroughs) and of Rural Districts; also in Urban Districts (other than County Boroughs) and in Rural Districts, 1911'.
CIVIL PARISH OF LLANWRTHWL	Local Government District (RD)	1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Industries (condensed list) of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)'.
CIVIL PARISH OF LLANWRTHWL ADMINISTERED BY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF RHAYADER RADNOR	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
CP OF LLANWRTHWL ADMINISTERED BY RDC OF RHAYADER RADNOR	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
LLAN WRTHWL	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
UNNAMED	Local Government District (RD)	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'.
UNNAMED ADMINISTERED BY RHAYADER RD	Local Government District (RD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 8, 'Administrative Counties, Urban Districts and Rural Districts - Persons, Males and Females at each year of age under 21 and in quinquennial age-groups in each Administrative County (inclusive and exclusive of associated County Boroughs) and in the aggregates of Urban Districts, of County Boroughs and of Rural districts. Also Males and Females at these ages in each County Borough, Municipal Borough, other Urban District and Rural District, 1911'.
UNNAMED ADMINISTERED BY THE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF RHAYADER	Local Government District (RD)	1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'.
UNNAMED RD ADMINISTERED BY THE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF RHAYADER RADNORSHIRE	Local Government District (RD)	1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'.

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Llanwrthwl, 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:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

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 Llanwrthwl, 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.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Llanwrthwl, in Powys and Brecknockshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6657/names

Date accessed: 21st October 2024