Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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 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

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
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