Portreath, Cornwall

Historical Description

Portreath, a seaport village in Illogan parish, Cornwall, on a pretty cove, 4 miles NW by W of Redruth. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Redruth; has also a harbour, formed in 1760 by the Bassets of Tehidy, and protected by batteries on the adjacent heights; exports copper ore to Swansea, and ranks as a chapelry, united to Illogan. It has a chapel of ease, and also Wesleyan and Methodist chapels.

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 Portreath from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Portreath 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.