Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
SCILLY ISLANDS	a group of islands	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 Isles of Scilly 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.
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to letter 3	6
John Wesley	1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester	1
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	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
Sampson	0	2
Hugh Town	0	2
St Marys	2	2
Tresco	2	2
Bryher	1	2
St Agnes Island	0	2
St Martins	1	1
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