Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
LAUNCESTON	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
LAUNCESTON and SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
Launceston (or North-Eastern) Division, The	parlimentary division	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 Launceston 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 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon	4
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester	4
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End	2
John Wesley	1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles	2
William Cobbett	Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	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 Thomas the Apostle	0	2
St Thomas Street	0	2
Newport	0	2
Lawhitton	0	2
St Stephens By Launceston	0	2
South Petherwin	0	3
Werrington	0	2
Lezant	0	2
Lifton	1	3
Bradstone	0	2
Dunterton	0	2
Lewannick	0	2
St Giles on the Heath	0	2
Kelly	0	2
Trewen	0	2
Egloskerry	0	2
Northcott	0	2
Stowford	0	2
Boyton	0	2
North Petherwin	0	2