Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
St Johns hamlet with railway station 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 St Johns 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.
George Head The west coast of the Isle of Man 2
George Head The Foxdale Mines and the Calf of Man 1
George Head Ramsey; a Manx Wedding 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
Patrick 1 3
Foxdale 2 2
German 0 2
Peel 12 2
Glen Maye 0 3
Cronk Y Voddy 0 2
Marown 0 2
Dalby 0 2
Baldwin 0 2
Injebreck 1 2
Union Mills 0 2
Glen Wyllin 1 3
Kirk Michael 5 2
Braddan 4 2
Santon 0 4
Port Soderick 0 3
Malew 0 2
Ballasalla 0 2
Arbory 0 2
Douglas 31 2