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Scilly Isles

The Oxford Companion to British History | 2002 | | Copyright

Scilly Isles. A group of 50 granite islands, five of them inhabited, lying 30 miles off Land's End in Cornwall. The largest islands are St Mary's and Tresco. Belonging to the abbey of Tavistock in the Middle Ages, they passed to the Godolphin family and in 1933 to the crown. Piracy, wrecking, and smuggling were not unknown before market gardening and tourism took over. The population is just over 2,000.

J. A. Cannon

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Scilly Isles

A Dictionary of British History | 2004 | | Copyright

Scilly Isles A group of 50 granite islands, five of them inhabited, lying 30 miles off Land's End in Cornwall. The largest islands are St Mary's and Tresco. Piracy, wrecking, and smuggling were not unknown before market gardening and tourism took over.

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Scilly Isles

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Scilly Isles Sully 12th cent. An ancient pre-English name first recorded in the first century AD, of unknown origin and meaning.

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