Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
AUSTELL (St.)	a market-town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district	Imperial
AUSTLE (St.)		Imperial
St Austell (or Mid) Division		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Carnrosemary	village	Bartholomew
Carthew	village	Bartholomew
Charlestown	ecclesiastical district and seaport village	Bartholomew
CHARLESTOWN	a small seaport town and a chapelry	Imperial
Holmbush	village	Bartholomew
POLMEAR, or Charlestown, in St		Imperial
Treverbyn	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
TREVERBYN	a chapelry	Imperial

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 Austell 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.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Plymouth to Penzance	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	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
Charlestown	0	2
Biscovey	0	2
St Blazey	0	2
Treverbyn	0	2
St Mewan	0	2
Par	0	2
Pentewan	0	2
Tywardreath	1	2
Luxulyan	0	2
Restormel	0	1
Hewas Water	0	2
Mevagissey	3	2
Lanlivery	0	2
St Stephen in Brannel	0	2
St Ewe	0	2
Fowey	11	4
St Sampson	0	2
Roche	0	2
Creed	0	2
St Dennis	1	2