Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Mousehole village 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 Mousehole 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.
John Wesley 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost 2
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 1
John Wesley 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life 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
Paul 0 2
Newlyn By Penzance 0 2
Penzance 28 2
Chyandour 0 2
St Buryan 3 2
St Michaels Mount 7 2
Penwith 4 2
Madron 0 2
Sancreed 1 2
Marazion 3 2
Gulval 1 2
Mulfra 0 2
Perranuthnoe 0 2
Ludgvan 2 2
Goldsithney 0 2
Prussia Cove 0 1
St Hilary 3 2
St Levan 0 2
St Just 26 2
Porthgwarra 0 2