A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Falmouth. You may be able to find further references to Falmouth in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | FALMOUTH | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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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 Falmouth 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. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End | 25 | William Camden | Cornwall and Devon | 2 | Charles Wesley | May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to letter 3 | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Plymouth to Penzance | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester | 1 | John Wesley | 1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs | 1 | John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 1 | John Wesley | 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Budock | 0 | 2 |
| Penwerris | 0 | 2 |
| Flushing | 0 | 2 |
| Penryn | 8 | 3 |
| Mylor | 0 | 2 |
| St Mawes | 0 | 2 |
| Mawnan | 0 | 2 |
| Mabe | 0 | 2 |
| St Gluvias | 0 | 2 |
| St Anthony in Roseland | 0 | 2 |
| St Just in Roseland | 0 | 2 |
| Devoran | 0 | 2 |
| Ponsanooth | 0 | 2 |
| Feock | 0 | 3 |
| Gerrans | 0 | 2 |
| Constantine | 0 | 2 |
| Helford | 0 | 2 |
| Perranarworthal | 1 | 3 |
| St Anthony in Meneage | 0 | 2 |
| Carnon | 0 | 2 |