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Minute book, December 1870-May 1873, of the Swansea School Board, with an index at the beginning of the volume.

A microfilm copy of Swansea Central Library MS A1.57, 'a composite manuscript of fragments of Welsh and Latin Catholic devotions written about 1600 by William David Llewelyn of Llangynidr, Brecknockshire, and another unidentified scribe' (see Geraint Bowen, 'Rhai Defosiynau Resiwsantaidd Cynnar', National Library of Wales Journal, vol VIII, 1963-64, pp 389-96).

A series of reminiscences by Welsh survivors on Svalbard, Spitsbergen, 1942-1943, collated by Boyd Williams, 2006.

Surveys of monumental inscriptions, including original photographs and negatives, at St Illog's church, Hirnant, St Ffraid's church, Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain, and St Melangell church, Pennant Melangell, co. Mont., 1986-7; together with photographs and negatives of gravestones at Llanwddyn church, co. Mont. Negatives and original photographs have been transferred to Photographs and Maps Department 15/8/2000. Further records, including original photographs, of a survey, 1988, of monumental inscriptions at St Wddyn's Church, Llanwddyn, co. Mont.

A survey in two volumes by Melvyn Davies of the Worms Head & Mainland Caves, 1-47 undertaken between July and September 1989; a survey of the Gower Coast Caves by R. T. Sutton, Melvyn Davies and Dr Graham Jenkins, September 1990; together with surveys of the caves of the South Gower Coast, Worms Head to Porteynon Point by Melvyn Davies, January 1987, and another copy with a few additions by Andrew Davies, and from Porteynon Point to Pwlldu Bay by Melvyn Davies, May and August 1990.

A copy of a booklet entitled An Appointment and Charge for the surveyors of the highways of the several parishes, townships, and places, in the hundred of . . ., and county of . . ., with an abstract of the statutes relating thereto . . . (Welshpool, 1809). Page 3 of the booklet is in the form of a blank certificate of appointment of surveyors of highways, and, in the present instance, has been used for the appointment of William Jones of Vaynor Ucha in the hundred of Newtown (Lower division), co. Montgomery, as surveyor in that area. The appointment was made by J[oh]n Williames and Dan[ie]l Williams, at a special sessions held at Berriew, by the Justices of the Peace acting within the said hundred of Newtown (Lower division), 19 October 1811.

Field notes, May-September 1865, by Thomas Sopwith of London relating to a survey of the mountains of Moelwyn Mawr and Moelwyn Bach, Merioneth. The notebook contains thirty-eight sketches (ff. 2-39, 124 verso), ten of which are executed in ink and wash colour, and the remainder in pencil, all drawn in May 1865. A further section of explanatory notes in ink, May-September 1865 (ff. 92-117), records the background to the survey, together with details of the work undertaken by Sopwith and his surveyor, Henry Robinson, including trials for slate (ff. 110-111).
The work was commissioned by the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues in preparation for a three-dimensional geological model by Sopwith. This 'model of the mountain Moel Wyn' is referred to in Sopwith, Description of a Series of Elementary Geological Models (London, 1875), p. 78, as being 'open to public view', but its present whereabouts is unknown; see further Robert Sopwith, Thomas Sopwith Surveyor: An Exercise in Self-help (Bishop Auckland, 1994), p. 196.

A survey of the manors of Penmarke, Funmon, Barrey, and Lancadle, Glamorgan, made by Evan Mouse in 1622, being a typescript copy (280 pp.) of the Welsh section of a manorial survey acquired in 1936 by the Bedfordshire County Record Office.

A volume of manuscript maps and accompanying references, being a survey made by Richard Owen in 1805 of the Plasbrith estate, the property of Edward Anwyl, comprising Maes y Branar and Braych Bedw, parish of Llanfachreth, Penydre, parish of Gwyddelwern, and Llety Ryse, Werngoch, Perthillwydion, Llwyn y Talcian, and Hafod y Goeswen, parish of Dolgelley, Merioneth.

A survey of the churchyard and memorial inscriptions relating to St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, carried out by the Penglais School History Society between 1978 and 1981, and indexed by E. Alwyn Benjamin, 1981.

A survey of grave spaces and headstones relating to St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, carried out by W. Rees Davies, Borough Engineer, August 1972, and indexed by E. Alwyn Benjamin, 1981.

A survey of monumental inscriptions at Seion Baptist Chapel, St Clears, co. Carmarthen, prepared by members of the Carmarthen branch of the Dyfed Family History Society.

A microfilm copy of part of PRO MS LR2/236 containing a survey of Merioneth, 1592.

A survey compiled by Leonard Urwin from gravestone inscriptions and official records, including cremation records, 1969-2011, from Parc Gwyn, Narberth, and information from War memorials in Pembrokeshire.

A survey of the Garthewin estate in Denbighshire, Flintshire and Shropshire.

A survey of estates belonging to Richard Garnons, esq., in the parishes of Llanwnda, Llanfaglen [sic], Llanbeblig, Llandwrog, and Llanllyfni, Caernarvonshire, and of Llangadfan, Anglesey, 1813.

A typescript copy of a report to the Caernarvonshire Rural Community Council of a survey of Caernarvonshire conducted by Mr. Robert Owen, O.B.E., M.A., Croesor, during the period 19 January to 22 June, 1934.

A transcript by Jno. Lawrence, Lantarnam, co. Monmouth, 1810, of the presentment of the homagers and tenants of the lordship of Abercarne, 29 September 1653, before William Morgan of Pencricke and William Jones of The Priory of Uske. Esquires, Commissioners of Survey for the Right Hon. Phillip [Herbert, 5th] earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.

Survey by Samuel Botham of the estates of Robert Corbett in the parishes of Cardington, Fordsley and Condover (two copies). English. Leather. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, June 1949.

A minute book and other records of the activities of the 'Surgical Requisites Association', a section of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild, 1915-1919, particularly of the Aberystwyth branch.