Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
ILFRACOMBE a town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Camscott hamlet Bartholomew
Heal hamlet Bartholomew
LEE a hamlet Imperial
SLADE a hamlet 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 Ilfracombe 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.
Robert Gammage Touring South Wales 4
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon 3
William Camden Cornwall and Devon 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset 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
Lee 0 2
West Down 0 2
Bittadon 0 2
Mortehoe 0 3
Berrynarbor 0 2
Woolacombe 0 1
Marwood 0 2
Georgeham 0 2
East Down 0 2
Combe Martin 3 3
Braunton 0 3
Heanton Punchardon 0 2
Ashford 0 2
Shirwell 0 4
Kentisbury 0 2
Trentishoe 0 2
Arlington 0 2
Bradiford 0 2
Pilton 0 2
Loxhore 0 2