Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
MICHAEL'S-MOUNT (ST.) an extra-parochial place Imperial

Travel writing

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Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Cornwall and Devon 4
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End 1
John Wesley 1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs 1

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Marazion 3 2
Goldsithney 0 2
Perranuthnoe 0 2
St Hilary 3 2
Ludgvan 2 2
Chyandour 0 2
Prussia Cove 0 1
Penwith 4 2
Penzance 28 2
Newlyn By Penzance 0 2
Gulval 1 2
Mousehole 0 2
St Erth 0 2
Pengersick 0 2
Germoe 0 2
Uny Lelant 0 3
Paul 0 2
Mulfra 0 2
Madron 0 2
Hayle 2 3