East Looe, fishing port with ry. sta. (Looe), St Martin's par., E. Cornwall, on E. side of estuary of the Looe, 231 miles SW. of London, pop. 1353; P.O., T.O., called Looe, 1 Bank. East Looe was an important maritime town in the 14th century, and it has still, in addition to its pilchard fishery, some exports of copper and granite. A canal connects it with Liskeard, 9 miles N., and a line of rail with the mines; a bridge stretches across the estuary to West Looe. East Looe is an ancient incorporation; it was disfranchised in 1832.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))