Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
PORT-ISAAC	a sea-port village	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 Port Isaac 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	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	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 Endellion	0	2
Port Quin	0	3
St Kew	0	2
St Minver	0	3
St Teath	0	2
Benbole	0	2
St Enodock	0	2
Porthilly	0	2
Trigg	0	2
Michaelstow	0	2
St Tudy	0	2
Wadebridge	3	2
Medrose	0	2
Egloshayle	0	2
Tintagel	7	2
St Mabyn	0	2
Trevenna	0	2
Lanteglos By Camelford	0	1
St Breock	0	2
Padstow	9	2