Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Camborne market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
Camborne (or North-Western) Division Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Carwinnen Carn hill with cromlech at base Bartholomew
Kebelland village Bartholomew
Penponds ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
PENPONDS a chapelry, with a village Imperial
Treslothan ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
TRESLOTHAN a chapelry Imperial
TUCKINGMILL a chapelry 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 Camborne 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.
Charles Wesley May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall 1
John Wesley 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions 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
Penponds 0 2
Tuckingmill 0 2
Treslothan 0 2
Pool 0 2
Gwinear 0 2
Illogan 3 2
Gwithian 0 3
Four Lanes 0 2
Portreath 0 2
Crowan 4 2
Godrevy 0 2
Redruth 26 3
Carnmenellis 0 2
Treleigh 0 2
Phillack 0 2
Lanner 0 2
Porkellis 0 2
Hayle 2 3
Godolphin 0 2
Scorrier 0 2