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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 "ST MAWES":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ANTHONY-IN-ROSELAND (St.)	Cornwall	St.) , a parish in Truro district, Cornwall; on the English Channel and the E side of Falmouth harbour, 3 miles E of Falmouth, and 9½ S of Truro r. station. Post Town, St. Mawes	Imperial
  Carreg-narth Point	Cornwall	Carreg-narth Point , headland, at St Mawes Harb., W. Cornwall, opposite Falmouth.	Bartholomew
  DERBY	Derbyshire	Mawe, the mineralogist, Hutton, the historian, Joseph Strutt, Lord Belper, Jones, Bourne, and the two Dethicks, were natives; and Pilkington, the historian, Simpson, the topographist, Whithurst, the cosmogonist, Degge, the antiquary, Fox, the Quaker, Dr. Darwin, and the first Earl of Macclesfield were residents. The District. —The poor-law district includes all the borough; includes also Darley-Abbey chapelry and Little Chester township in St	Imperial
  FALMOUTH	Cornwall	St. Mawes and Penryn for sub-ports. The vessels belonging to it, at the commencement of 1863, were 49 small	Imperial
  GERRANS	Cornwall	St. Mawe's harbour., 7 miles SW by S of Tregony, and 7½ SSE of Truro r. station; is alleged	Imperial
  JUST-IN-ROSELAND (ST.)	Cornwall	ST.) , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Truro district, Cornwall. The village stands on St. Just creek, on the E side of Falmouth harbour, 3 ½ miles by water NE of Falmouth r. station, and 7 SSE of Truro; and has a post office, of the name of St Just Lane, under Grampound, Cornwall. The parish contains also the town castle of St. Mawes	Imperial
  Linton	Peebles Shire	Linton ('town on the lin or pool') or West Linton, a village and a parish of NW Peeblesshire. The village	Groome
  LLANELLTYD, or LLANYLTID	Merionethshire	Maw, at the influx of the Wnion, amid magnificent scene, overhung by Cader Idris, 1¼ mile NW of Dolgelly r. station; and has a post office under Corwen. Mr. Pratt says respecting the scenery,-' ' Its beauties are so manifold and extraordinary that they literally beggar description; now pastures of the most exuberant fertility; now woods rising in all the majesty of foliage; the road itself curving in numberless unexpected directions, -at one moment shut into a verdant recess, so contracted that there seems neither carriage nor bridle way out of it,-at another the azure expanse of the main	Imperial
  Maen Rock	Cornwall	Maen Rock , cromlech, St Just par., Cornwall, at St Constantines, near St Mawes.	Bartholomew
  MAEN-ROCK	Cornwall	St. Just parish, Cornwall; at St. Constantines, near St. Mawes. It has a top stone 33 feet long, 18½ feet	Imperial
  MAWES (ST.)	Cornwall	MAWES (ST.) , a small town in St. Just-in-Roseland parish, Cornwall; on St. Mawes harbour, an offshoot of Falmouth	Imperial
  MERIONETH, or MERIONETHISHIRE	Merionethshire	MERIONETH , or MERIONETHISHIRE, a maritime county of North Wales; bounded, on the N W, by Carnarvonshire; on the N, by	Imperial
  Portscatho	Cornwall	Gerrans Bay, S. coast of Cornwall, 2½ miles NE. of St Mawes, and 8 miles SE. of Truro; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  St Just (in Roseland)	Cornwall	St Just (in Roseland) , par. and vil., Cornwall, on St Just Creek - par. (containing St Mawes town), 2650 ac. land	Bartholomew
  St Mawes	Cornwall	St Mawes , market town, St Just in Roseland par., Cornwall, on St Mawes Harbour, 3 miles E. of Falmouth; P.O., T.O. Market	Bartholomew

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