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We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about St Martins, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to St Martins in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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East Looe | fishing port with railway station | Bartholomew |
Looe, East | fishing port, market town, and township | Bartholomew |
LOOE (EAST) | a small sea-port town and a chapelry | Imperial |
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St Martins like this:
MARTIN (ST.), one of the Scilly Islands, in Cornwall; 3 miles N of St. Mary's. Acres, about 550. Pop., 185. Houses, 48. On the N of it is St. Martin's bay, connected by land at low water with Whitc Island whiqh has a deep cavern or old tin-mine; on the E is St. Martin's Head, 160 feet high, crowned by the Day Marlj., and commanding a very striking view among the islands; on the SE are the Higher Town and Cruther's Hill, about 70 feet high; on the S and the W are St. Martin's Flats, famous for shells; on the W is T...
incler's Point, surmounted by a Druidical stone, and near the remains of two Druidical circles; and on the NW, accessible at low-water, are Pernagie Isle, Plumb Island, and the Lion Rock.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to St Martins by doing a full-text search here.
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 Martins 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 | Smaller Islands in the British Ocean | 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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Tresco | 2 | 2 |
St Marys | 2 | 2 |
Bryher | 1 | 2 |
Isles of Scilly | 13 | 2 |
Hugh Town | 0 | 2 |
Sampson | 0 | 2 |
St Agnes Island | 0 | 2 |
Wolfe Rock Lighthouse | 0 | 2 |
Lands End | 0 | 2 |
Maen | 0 | 2 |
Sennen | 3 | 2 |
Porthgwarra | 0 | 2 |
St Levan | 0 | 2 |
St Just | 26 | 2 |
Pendeen | 0 | 2 |
St Buryan | 3 | 2 |
Sancreed | 1 | 2 |
Morvah | 12 | 2 |
Paul | 0 | 2 |
Madron | 0 | 2 |