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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about St Michaels Mount. You may be able to find further references to St Michaels Mount in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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MICHAEL'S-MOUNT (ST.) | an extra-parochial place | Imperial |
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 Michaels Mount 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. |
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William Camden | Cornwall and Devon | 4 |
William Camden | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End | 1 |
John Wesley | 1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs | 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 |
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Marazion | 3 | 2 |
Goldsithney | 0 | 2 |
Perranuthnoe | 0 | 2 |
St Hilary | 3 | 2 |
Ludgvan | 2 | 2 |
Chyandour | 0 | 2 |
Prussia Cove | 0 | 1 |
Penwith | 4 | 2 |
Penzance | 28 | 2 |
Newlyn By Penzance | 0 | 2 |
Gulval | 1 | 2 |
Mousehole | 0 | 2 |
St Erth | 0 | 2 |
Pengersick | 0 | 2 |
Germoe | 0 | 2 |
Uny Lelant | 0 | 3 |
Paul | 0 | 2 |
Mulfra | 0 | 2 |
Madron | 0 | 2 |
Hayle | 2 | 3 |