Descriptive gazetteer entries

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
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
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

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 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.
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
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