You searched for "BARN ELMS" 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 10 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 "BARN ELMS" (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 "BARN ELMS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BARNES	Surrey	Barnes and the hamlet of Barnes-Elms or Barn-Elms, both of which have post offices under Mortlake, London, S. W. Acres	Imperial
  Barnes Elms and Barnes Green	Surrey	Barnes Elms and Barnes Green , 2 hamlets, Barnes par., mid. Surrey.	Bartholomew
  BAYFORD	Hertfordshire	Barnes-Elms. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; and till 1867 was annexed to Essendon. Value	Imperial
  CAMBRIDGE	Cambridgeshire	CAMBRIDGE , a university town, the capital of Cambridgeshire. It stands on the Via Devana, the river Cam, and the Eastern	Imperial
  CHRISTCHURCH	Hampshire	elms. The chief monuments in the church are a sculpture, by Weeks, to the poet Shelley; a memorial window to Mr. Ferrey; a statue, by Flaxman, to Viscountess Fitzharris; a chantry, of Caen stone, to the Countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Pole; and chantries, altar-tombs, or other monuments to the fourth Earl of Devon, Bishop Draper, Robert Harys, John Barnes	Imperial
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Edinburgh, the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian, is situated 2 miles S of the Firth of Forth	Groome
  ETON	Buckinghamshire	elms. It consists chiefly of one long street; has, of late years, undergone much improvement; has sewage-works, formed in 1869, at a cost of about £8, 000; and contains many fine houses. An iron bridge, erected in 1823-4, connects it with Windsor. Another bridge, called Baldwin's or Barne	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  Peeblesshire or Tweeddale	Peebles Shire	Peeblesshire or Tweeddale, an inland county in the S of Scotland, is bounded on the N and NE by Edinburghshire	Groome

  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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