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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "HARTLAND POINT":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BARNSTAPLE	Devon	point to Hartland point; lies much exposed to westerly winds; and includes, on the south side, Clovelly roadstead, with from	Imperial
  BRISTOL CHANNEL	Somerset	Hartland Point, through Sundy Island, to St. Govan's Head, about 40 miles. Its length, from King Road to Sundy	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	EXETER , a city and a district in Devon, and a diocese in Devon and Cornwall. The city stands on the	Imperial
  Gallantry Bower	Devon	cliff on coast of N. Devon, on S. side of Bideford Bay, 3 miles SE. of Hartland Point, alt. 360 ft.	Bartholomew
  GALLANTRY BOWER	Devon	Devon; 4¾ miles E by S of Hartland point. It is 386 feet high, and is crowned by a fort.	Imperial
  HARTLAND	Devon	HARTLAND , a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred in Devon. The village stands on a cape on the S side of Barnstaple bay, 3½ miles SE of Hartland point	Imperial
  Hartland Point	Devon	Hartland Point , promontory, N. Devon, forming S. extremity of Barnstaple Bay, at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, alt. 350 ft.; on the Point	Bartholomew
  HARTLAND QUAY	Devon	HARTLAND QUAY , a village in Hartland parish, Devon; on the coast, 2 miles S by W of Hartland point, and 2¼ W of Hartland	Imperial
  Hobby Drive	Devon	coast of Devon, leading along S. side of Bideford Bay towards Hartland Point; commands extensive views of the Bristol Channel.	Bartholomew
  HOBBY (THE)	Devon	Hartland point. It was made by Sir J. H. Williams. It winds entirely through woods on the verge of magnificent	Imperial
  Lundy Island	Devon	Hartland Point, 2½ miles long and 1 mile broad, 920 ac., pop. 177. Lundy Island belongs to the co. of Devon	Bartholomew
  LUNDY ISLAND	Devon	Hartland point, and 19 W of Morte point. It forms a breakwater to Bristol channel; rises in high cliffs from	Imperial
  Marshland Mouth	Cornwall	Marshland Mouth , ravine, on NW. border of Cornwall and Devon, 7 miles S. of Hartland Point.	Bartholomew
  Pallard	Devon	Hartland, Devon; a stream is here crossed by Pallard Bridge , and to the N., on the road to Hartland Point	Bartholomew
  Tor Point	Devon	Tor Point , headland, Devon, near Hartland Quay.	Bartholomew

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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