Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cober, or Loo	rivulet	Bartholomew
Loo	river	Bartholomew
Looe	railway station	Bartholomew
Looe	river	Bartholomew
LOOE	a sub-district	Imperial
LOOE ISLAND	an extra-parochial island	Imperial
Looe Island (or St George's Island)		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 Looe 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.
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Plymouth to Penzance	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
West Looe	2	2
East Looe	2	3
Talland	0	2
Sandplace	0	2
Polperro	0	2
Pelynt	0	2
Morval	0	2
Lansallos	0	2
Duloe	0	2
Hessenford	0	2
St Keyne	0	2
Herodsfoot	0	2
Lanreath	0	2
St Martin	0	2
St Germans	6	2
Caradon	0	3
Lanteglos By Fowey	0	2
the West	0	2
Polbathick	0	2
St Veep	0	2