Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
GERMANS (St.)	a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with St Germans.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hessenford	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
HESSENFORD	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
TIDEFORD	a chapelry	Imperial
Tideford (or Tidiford)	ecclesiastical district	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 St Germans 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	Cornwall and Devon	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	2

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
Hessenford	0	2
Polbathick	0	2
Tideford	0	2
St Erney	0	1
Sheviock	0	2
Landrake	0	2
Morval	0	2
Quethiock	0	3
Menheniot	2	2
Caradon	0	3
St Stephens	1	3
Saltash	13	3
Sandplace	0	2
Botus Fleming	0	2
Trematon	0	2
Pillaton	1	2
Antony	1	2
East Looe	2	3
St Keyne	0	2
Looe	3	8