Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Looe Island (or St George's Island)

Looe Island (or St George's Island), Talland par., Cornwall, ½ mile from the shore and 1½ mile S. of East Looe, pop. 2. Looe Island is ½ m. in circuit, 170 ft. high, and has an ancient chapel, now a coastguard station.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Administrative units: Talland AP/CP       Cornwall AncC
Place names: LOOE ISLAND     |     LOOE ISLAND OR ST GEORGES ISLAND     |     ST GEORGES ISLAND
Place: Looe

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