Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Saltash	market town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
SALTASH and CALLINGTON railway	a railway	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 Saltash 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	9
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth	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
St Stephens	1	3
Trematon	0	2
Botus Fleming	0	2
Merrifield	0	2
St Erney	0	1
Landrake	0	2
Antony	1	2
Torpoint	0	2
Landulph	0	2
St Budeaux	0	2
Keyham	0	1
Sheviock	0	2
Devonport	0	2
Tideford	0	2
Pillaton	1	2
Morice	0	2
Polbathick	0	2
Millbrook	0	2
Honicknowle	0	1
Stoke Damerel	0	2