Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Mevagissey	fishing town	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Pentewan	seaport village	Bartholomew
PENTEWAN	a sea-port village	Imperial
Penwarne	hamlet	Bartholomew
PENWARNE	a hamlet	Imperial
Tregiskey	hamlet	Bartholomew
TREGISKEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Trelavan	hamlet	Bartholomew
TRELAVEN	a hamlet	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 Mevagissey 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

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
Pentewan	0	2
St Ewe	0	2
Gorran	0	2
Hewas Water	0	2
St Michael Carhays	0	3
Creed	0	2
Charlestown	0	2
Cuby	0	2
St Mewan	0	2
St Austell	3	4
Grampound	5	3
Powder	0	2
Biscovey	0	2
Veryan	0	2
St Blazey	0	2
Porthloe	0	2
Tregony	2	2
St Stephen in Brannel	0	2
Par	0	2
Cornelly	0	2