Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Erin, Port	port	Bartholomew
PORT-ERIN, or Port-Iron	a 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 Erin 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.
George Head	The Foxdale Mines and the Calf of Man	6

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
Rushen	3	2
Bradda Head	3	1
Port St Mary	3	2
Spanish Head	5	2
Kitterland	2	1
Colby	0	2
Poyllvaish	5	2
Calf of Man	3	3
Arbory	0	2
Castletown	13	2
Malew	0	2
Ballasalla	0	2
Derbyhaven	2	2
Dalby	0	2
Glen Maye	0	3
Foxdale	2	2
Santon	0	4
Patrick	1	3
St Johns	4	2
Port Soderick	0	3