Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Grampound	small market town and township	Bartholomew
GRAMPOUND ROAD	a railway station	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 Grampound 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	2
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	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

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
Powder	0	2
Creed	0	2
Cuby	0	2
Probus	0	2
Hewas Water	0	2
Tregony	2	2
St Ewe	0	2
Cornelly	0	2
Ladock	0	3
St Stephen in Brannel	0	2
Tresilian	0	2
St Mewan	0	2
St Michael Carhays	0	3
Lamorran	0	2
Merther	0	2
Ruan Lanihorne	0	2
Veryan	0	2
Mevagissey	3	2
Gorran	0	2
Pentewan	0	2