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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Portreath like this:
PORTREATH, a seaport village in Illogan parish, Cornwall; on a pretty cove, 4 miles N W by W of Redruth. It has a post-office‡ under Redruth; has also aharbour, formed in 1760 by the Bassets of Tehidy, and protected by batteries on the adjacent heights; is connected by a tram railway with the Gwennap mines; exports copper ore to Swansea; and ranks as a chapelry, united to Illogan.
Portreath is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Portreath itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Radwinter, in Uttlesford and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23920
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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