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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about St Ives. You may be able to find further references to St Ives in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | IVES (ST.) | a bay | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with St Ives.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HALESTOWN, or HALSETOWN | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | Halse Town | village and ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
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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 Ives 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. | Charles Wesley | May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall | 13 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall | 7 | John Wesley | 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles | 7 | Charles Wesley | May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall | 4 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon | 4 | John Wesley | 1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs | 4 | John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 4 | William Camden | Cornwall and Devon | 2 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Plymouth to Penzance | 1 | John Wesley | 1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness | 1 | John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 1 | John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 1 |
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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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Halse Town | 0 | 2 |
Carbis Bay | 0 | 1 |
Uny Lelant | 0 | 3 |
Towednack | 2 | 2 |
Hayle | 2 | 3 |
Phillack | 0 | 2 |
Ludgvan | 2 | 2 |
Zennor | 8 | 2 |
St Erth | 0 | 2 |
Gulval | 1 | 2 |
Mulfra | 0 | 2 |
Penwith | 4 | 2 |
Gwithian | 0 | 3 |
Godrevy | 0 | 2 |
Marazion | 3 | 2 |
St Hilary | 3 | 2 |
Chyandour | 0 | 2 |
St Michaels Mount | 7 | 2 |
Goldsithney | 0 | 2 |
Gwinear | 0 | 2 |