Port Isaac, Cornwall

Historical Description

Port Isaac, a seaport fishing village and health resort, famed for its famous cliff scenery, in Endellion parish, Cornwall, on a bay of its own name, 6¼ miles NE of Padstow, and 3 NW of Port Isaac Road station on the North Cornwall branch of the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wadebridge. Population, 1000. The bay is an open sweep, extending about 6 miles, from Varle Point on the NW to Tintagel Head on the NE. The church is built of local stone and granite in the Early English style.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Port Isaac from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Port-Isaac)

Maps

Online maps of Port Isaac are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cornwall papers online:

• Royal Cornwall Gazette
• Cornishman
• West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
• Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser

Visitations Heraldic

We have a copy of The Visitations of Cornwall, by Lieut.-Col. J.L. Vivian online.