| The Making of Modern Cornwall: Historical Experience and the Persistence of Difference P Payton Dyllansow Truran, 1992 | 149 | 1992 |
| The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall's' great Emigration' P Payton Dundurn, 2005 | 113 | 2005 |
| Cornwall: A History: Revised and Updated Edition P Payton University of Exeter Press, 2017 | 92 | 2017 |
| New directions in Celtic studies A Hale, P Payton University of Exeter Press, 2000 | 63 | 2000 |
| Re-inventing Cornwall: culture change on the European periphery B Deacon, P Payton Cornish Studies 1, 62-79, 1993 | 43 | 1993 |
| Making Moonta: the invention of Australia's little Cornwall P Payton University of Exeter Press, 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| The Cornish Miner in Australia: Cousin Jack Down Under P Payton Dyllansow Turan, 1984 | 38 | 1984 |
| Cornwall P Payton Alexander Associates, 1996 | 34 | 1996 |
| Paralysis and revival: the reconstruction of Celtic-Catholic Cornwall 1890-1945 P Payton Cornwall: The cultural construction of place, Penzance, 25-39, 1997 | 31 | 1997 |
| Cornish P Payton Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe, 99-103, 1988 | 28 | 1988 |
| The Cornish Farmer in Australia: or, Australian adventure: Cornish colonists and the expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian agricultural frontier PJ Payton Dyllansow Truran, 1987 | 23 | 1987 |
| 'A concealed envy against the English': a note on the aftermath of the 1497 rebellions in Cornwall P Payton Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion 1490-1690, 106-117, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
| The Great Western Railway and the Cornish-Celtic Revival P Payton, P Thornton CORNISH STUDIES-REDRUTH THEN EXETER-, 83-103, 1995 | 20 | 1995 |
| The Age of Mass Tourism AM Williams, G Shaw, P Payton Cornwall Since The War, 84-97, 1993 | 19 | 1993 |
| The Cornish Miner in Australia P Payton Dyllansaw Truran, Redruth, Cornwall, 1984 | 18 | 1984 |
| Cornish emigration in response to changes in the international copper market in the 1860s P Payton CORNISH STUDIES-REDRUTH THEN EXETER-, 60-82, 1995 | 17 | 1995 |
| Territory and identity P Payton Cornwall Since The War: The Contemporary History of a European Nation, 224-252, 1993 | 16 | 1993 |
| One and all: Labor and the radical tradition in South Australia P Payton Wakefield Press, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Industrial Celts? Cornish identity in the age of technological prowess P Payton CORNISH STUDIES-REDRUTH THEN EXETER-, 116-135, 2002 | 15 | 2002 |
| A Vision of Cornwall P Payton Alexander Associates, 2002 | 15 | 2002 |
