You searched for "ASHLEY NEW FOREST" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 8 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "ASHLEY NEW FOREST" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "ASHLEY NEW FOREST":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASHLEY-LODGE	Hampshire	ASHLEY-LODGE , an extra-parochial tract in the New Forest, Hants; 3 miles ENE of Fordingbridge.	Imperial
  ASHLEY-WALK	Hampshire	ASHLEY-WALK , a portion of the New Forest, Hants; partly extra-parochial, and partly in the parishes of Breamore and Ellingham	Imperial
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Edinburgh, the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian, is situated 2 miles S of the Firth of Forth	Groome
  FORDINGBRIDGE	Hampshire	New Forest, 19 miles W by N of Southampton; and it has a r. station with telegraph. It has repeatedly suffered from fires, and has lost much of its former importance; yet it still figures as a seat of industry, and a centre of country trade. It has a post office‡ under Salisbury, a banking office, two chief inns, a bridge, a church, three dissenting chapels, a literary and scientific institution, National and British schools, a workhouse, and charities £16. The bridge is a stone structure, with seven arches. The church has an early English chancel, an early	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL , a diocese comprehending all Gloucestershire, the deaneries of Cricklade and Malmsbury in Wilts, and the parish of	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	LICHFIELD , a city, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district in Staffordshire, and a diocese partly also in Derbyshire	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  RINGWOOD	Hampshire	Ashley, Bistern and Crow Burley, Kingston, Avon, Wattenford, Moortown, Poulner, Hop-Garden, and part of Blashford; and includes570 acres in the Burley-walk, and 25 in the Holmesley-walk, of the New Forest	Imperial

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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