Camelford, Cornwall : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Camelford market town Bartholomew
CAMELFORD a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district 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 Camelford 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.
William Camden Cornwall and Devon 3
Celia Fiennes 1698 Tour: Lands End to Winchester 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon 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 Historical Gazetteer
Lanteglos By Camelford 0 1
Advent 0 2
Medrose 1 2
Minster 0 2
St Teath 0 2
Michaelstow 0 2
Tintagel 7 2
St Breward 0 3
Davidstow 0 2
Trevalga 0 2
Bossiney 0 2
Lesnewth 0 3
Trevenna 0 2
Forrabury 0 2
Boscastle 2 2
Lank 0 3
St Tudy 0 2
St Clether 0 2
St Juliot 0 2
Blisland 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Camelford. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
CAMBLEFORD Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
CAMELFORD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
COMBLEFFORD Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
GAFFELFORD William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
KAMBLAN William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.