Porthgwarra, Cornwall
Historical Description
Porthgwarra, a fishing hamlet in the SW of Cornwall, 3 miles SE of Land's End, and 9 SW of Penzance. It lies at the mouth of a wild vale, and is reached by a tunnelled roadway.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Porthgwarra 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.