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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 "CARLIN HOW":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Carlin How	Yorkshire	Carlin How , hamlet with ry. sta., 4 miles SE. of Saltburn, North-Riding Yorkshire; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Carlins Cairn	Kirkcudbrightshire	Carlins Cairn, a mountain on the SW border of Carsphairn parish, NW Kirkcudbrightshire. It culminates 2 miles E of the Ayrshire	Groome
  Carlins Cairn	Kirkcudbrightshire	Carlins Cairn , mountain (2650 ft.), NW. Kirkcudbrightshire, 3 miles SE. of head of Loch Doon.	Bartholomew
  Carlin Skerry	Orkney	Carlin Skerry, a rocky islet, by seamen called the Barrel of Butter, in the S of Orkney, 1¼ mile	Groome
  Carlin Skerry, or Barrel of Butter	Orkney	Carlin Skerry , or Barrel of Butter , insular rock, 1¼ mile SE. of Orphir church, Pomona isl., S. Orkney.	Bartholomew
  Carlin Tooth	Roxburghshire	Carlin Tooth, a summit of the Cheviots (1801 feet) in the S of Southdean parish, Roxburghshire, at the watershed between	Groome
  Carlin Tooth	Roxburghshire	Carlin Tooth , a summit of the Cheviots (1801 ft.), SE. Roxburghshire, 11½ miles SW. of Jedburgh and 1 mile	Bartholomew
  Carsphairn	Kirkcudbrightshire	Carlins Cairn (2650), Meaul (2280), Coran of Portmark (2042), Black Craig (1730), Cullendoch Hill (1120), Ben Brack (1475), Todden Hill	Groome
  Habbie's Howe	Midlothian	Carline's Loup-were supposed once to have been the residence of a carline or witch, who lived in a dell	Groome
  Jed Water	Roxburghshire	Carlin Tooth, one of the Cheviots, and flows 21 miles N. past Jedburgh to the Teviot near Jedfoot Bridge sta.	Bartholomew
  Jed Water	Roxburghshire	Carlin Tooth (1801 feet), one of the Cheviots, 1 mile from the English Border; and thence winds 21¾ miles	Groome
  Mochrum	Wigtownshire	Carlin Stone near Eldrig Loch, a vitrified fort on the Doon of May, remains of Chapel Finian (By the country	Groome
  Southdean	Roxburghshire	Carlin Tooth, within ¾ mile of a head-stream of the English Tyne, has here a north-north-easterly course	Groome
  Tyne	Roxburghshire	Carlin-Tooth, near the source of Jed Water, and-run 5½ furlongs eastward through Southdean parish to the Border	Groome

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