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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  AXMOUTH Hundred	Ancient District	DEVON (Ancient County)

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• 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 "AXMOUTH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Axe	Dorset	near Cheddington in Dorset, flows 21 m. SW. to the English Channel at Axmouth, and is navigable for 4 m.	Bartholomew
  AXE (The)	Devon	channel at Axmouth. Its length of course is about 21 miles. It is navigable for about 4 miles from its mouth.	Imperial
  AXMINSTER	Devon	Axmouth, and Seaton, and the extra-parochial tract of Roosdown. Acres, 61,738. Poor-rates in 1866, £12,875. Pop. in 1861, 19,758. Houses	Imperial
  Axmouth	Devon	Axmouth , par. and fishing vil., E. Devon, 1½ mile from Colyford ry. sta. and 6 miles SW. of Axminster	Bartholomew
  AXMOUTH	Devon	AXMOUTH , a village and a parish in Axminster district, Devon. The village stands at the mouth of the river Axe, under	Imperial
  BEER	Devon	Axmouth; has a post office under Axminster; carries on fishing and lace-making; and was noted, in former days, for smuggling	Imperial
  BENDON	Devon	Axmouth, Devon. It shows well the architectural features of the 16th century; and was long a seat of the Erle	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Axmouth, Colyton, Shute, Membury, Seaton, and Stockland; and the p. curacies of Kilmington, Monkton, Honiton-Allhallows, Beer, and Dalwood. The deanery	Imperial
  FOSSE WAY	Devon Lincolnshire	Axmouth; passed through Ilchester, Stratton-on-Foss, and Bath, to Cirencester; was crossed there by Ermine-street; went thence to Claychester	Imperial
  Haven Cliff	Devon	Haven Cliff , lofty height, and seat, on Axe estuary, E. Devon, 2 miles SW. of Axmouth.	Bartholomew
  HAVEN-CLIFF	Devon	miles SW of Axmouth. A mansion of its own name, the seat of J. H. Hallett, Esq., is at its foot.	Imperial
  Hawksdown	Devon	Hawksdown , hill, E. Devon, near Axmouth; has a Roman camp.	Bartholomew
  HAWKSDOWN	Devon	Axmouth and the river Axe. It overlooks the valley of the Axe, commands extensive views, and has a Roman camp	Imperial
  Pinner Cliffs	Devon	Pinner Cliffs , cliff range, on SE. coast of Devon, between Axmouth and Lyme Regis; great landslips have occurred here.	Bartholomew
  PINNEY	Devon	coast of Devon; midway between Axmouth and Lyme-Regis. The land-slips noticed in our account of Axmouth are here.	Imperial

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