Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
St Agnes small seaport town 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 Agnes 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.
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 2
John Wesley 1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 1
John Wesley 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War 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
Mount Hawke 0 2
Mithian 0 2
Scorrier 0 2
Chacewater 0 2
Tregavethan 0 2
Treleigh 0 2
Redruth 26 3
Perranzabuloe 0 2
St Day 0 2
Portreath 0 2
Baldhu 0 2
Illogan 3 2
Gwennap 29 2
Lanner 0 2
Pool 0 2
St Allen 0 2
Tuckingmill 0 2
Kea 0 2
Kenwyn 0 2
Perranarworthal 1 3