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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 "GORING HEATH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHEVIOT HILLS	Northumberland	heath; and considerable tracts are bog. The golden eagle is sometimes seen; grouse are found; and the famous breed of sheep, known as the Cheviots, is extensively depastured. The line of watershed is nearly identical with the boundary line between Northumberland and Scotland; and the chief streams on the English side are the Wooler, the Breamish, the Coquet, and the Reed. Mrs. Sigourney, apostrophising the flocks of sheep, and alluding to the Border raids, says- Graze on, graze on, -there comes no sound Of Border warfare near; No slogan-cry of gathering clan, No battle-axe, no spear. There	Imperial
  Goring Heath	Oxfordshire	Goring Heath , vil., in par. and 4 miles NE. of Goring, Oxfordshire; P.O.	Bartholomew
  GORING-HEATH	Oxfordshire	GORING-HEATH , a village in Goring parish, Oxford; 4 miles from Goring r. station, and 6¼ from Reading. It has a post	Imperial
  LEITRIM	Leitrim	LEITRIM (County of): a county, of which a very small portion is maritime, in the province of CONNAUGHT, bounded on	Lewis:Ireland
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England	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
  OSWESTRY	Shropshire	Gore, Esq. Llanforda, an ancient mansion, belongs to W. W. Wynn, Bart.; and Sweeney Hall, to Sir B. Leighton, Bart. The Hayes, Oakhurst, Penylan, Aston Hall, and Woodhill, also are chief residences. The head living is a vicarage, and that of Trinity is a p.curacy, in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value of the former, £477; * of the latter, £150. Patron of the former, Earl Powys; of the latter, the Vicar. The rectory of Trefonen and the p. curacy of Aston are separate benefices. The workhouse of the district is in Weston-Cotton township; and, at the census	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
  SLIGO	Sligo	SLIGO (County of), a maritime county of the province of CONNAUGHT, bounded on the east by Leitrim, on the north	Lewis:Ireland

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