A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Gwennap. You may be able to find further references to Gwennap in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Gwennap | parish | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Gwennap.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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DAY (St.) | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
Frogpool | village | Bartholomew |
Hicks Mill | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Lannarth | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
LANNARTH, or LANNER | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
St Day | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
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 Gwennap 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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Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall | 7 |
Charles Wesley | May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall | 5 |
Charles Wesley | May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall | 3 |
John Wesley | 1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs | 3 |
John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 3 |
John Wesley | 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles | 2 |
John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 2 |
John Wesley | 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents | 2 |
John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 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 |
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St Day | 0 | 2 |
Lanner | 0 | 2 |
Scorrier | 0 | 2 |
Ponsanooth | 0 | 2 |
Perranarworthal | 1 | 3 |
Chacewater | 0 | 2 |
Treleigh | 0 | 2 |
Stithians | 2 | 3 |
Redruth | 26 | 3 |
Baldhu | 0 | 2 |
Four Lanes | 0 | 2 |
St Gluvias | 0 | 2 |
Carnmenellis | 0 | 2 |
Devoran | 0 | 2 |
Carnon | 0 | 2 |
Kea | 0 | 2 |
Pool | 0 | 2 |
Mount Hawke | 0 | 2 |
Illogan | 3 | 2 |
Tuckingmill | 0 | 2 |