Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Illogan parish Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Illogan.

Place Type of entry Source
Carnkie village Bartholomew
Forest hamlet Bartholomew
Portreath seaport village Bartholomew
PORTREATH a seaport village Imperial
Trevenson curacy Bartholomew
TUCKINGMILL a chapelry Imperial

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 Illogan 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 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners 1
John Wesley 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 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
Pool 0 2
Tuckingmill 0 2
Portreath 0 2
Redruth 26 3
Treleigh 0 2
Camborne 3 3
Four Lanes 0 2
Penponds 0 2
Treslothan 0 2
Scorrier 0 2
Lanner 0 2
St Day 0 2
Mount Hawke 0 2
Gwennap 29 2
Carnmenellis 0 2
St Agnes 6 2
Chacewater 0 2
Gwithian 0 3
Gwinear 0 2
Godrevy 0 2