Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Mousehole within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Mousehole, vil., St Paul par., Cornwall, on Mounts Bay, 2 miles S. of Penzance; P.O.; is a seat of the pilchard fishery; was formerly a market town, known as Porth Enys, and was burned by the Spaniards in 1595; here, in 1788, aged 102 years, died Dolly Pentreath, said to have been the last person who spoke Cornish.