Descriptive gazetteer entries

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
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

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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...

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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.

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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 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.
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
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