Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Passage West	seaport town	Bartholomew
PASSAGE (WEST)	a sea-port and post-town	Lewis:Ireland

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 Passage West 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.
Arthur Young	11th to 20th September 1776: Cork	3
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer