Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Bradda Head like this:

Bradda Head, bold cliff, Isle of Man, on the S. coast.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Bradda Head by doing a full-text search here.

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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 Bradda Head 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	3

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
Port Erin	6	3
Rushen	3	2
Port St Mary	3	2
Kitterland	2	1
Spanish Head	5	2
Colby	0	2
Calf of Man	3	3
Arbory	0	2
Poyllvaish	5	2
Castletown	13	2
Dalby	0	2
Malew	0	2
Ballasalla	0	2
Derbyhaven	2	2
Glen Maye	0	3
Foxdale	2	2
Santon	0	4
Patrick	1	3
St Johns	4	2
Peel	12	2