Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
TRURO	a town, a parish, and a district	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 Truro 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	13
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester	3
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Plymouth to Penzance	1
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	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
Kenwyn	0	2
St Clement	0	2
Malpas	0	2
Kea	0	2
Merther	0	2
St Michael Penkevil	4	2
Tresilian	0	2
Carnon	0	2
Baldhu	0	2
Feock	0	3
Tregavethan	0	2
Lamorran	0	2
St Erme	0	2
St Allen	0	2
Devoran	0	2
Philleigh	0	3
Chacewater	0	2
Perranarworthal	1	3
Cornelly	0	2
Ruan Lanihorne	0	2