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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  GREAT BUSBY	Manor	STOKESLEY CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)

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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 "GREAT BUSBY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ayrshire	Ayrshire	great branch of the same system, originally the southern part of the Glasgow and Ayr railway, leaves the main line near Dalry, and proceeds past Irvine and along the coast to Ayr. Local railways, or branches of the Glasgow and South-Western, go from Ayr to Girvan, from Ayr to Dalmellington, from Ayr to Mauchline, from Troon to Kilmarnock, from Irvine to Busby	Groome
  Busby, Great and Little	Yorkshire	Busby, Great and Little , 2 townships with ry. sta. (Busby), in par. and 2¼ miles S. of Stokesley, North	Bartholomew
  BUSBY (Great and Little)	Yorkshire	BUSBY (Great and Little) , two townships in Stokesley parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 2¼ miles S of Stokesley. Acres, 1,368 and 675. Real	Imperial
  Eaglesham	Renfrewshire	Eaglesham, a village and a parish of SE Renfrewshire. The village, standing 500 feet above sea-level, is 4 miles	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	greatness in its increasing trade, which was, in Defoe's time, quickly outgrowing the little commencement that had, in the beginning of the 18th century, been made in the manufacture of tobacco, the refining of sugar, and the making of soap. The growing importance of the city is evident from the fact that in 1702 the provost, Hugh Montgomerie of Busby	Groome
  Kilmaurs	Ayrshire	greatly enhanced by clumps of wood. Agriculture has undergone vast improvement, and the dairy husbandry is eminently excellent. The chief antiquity is Busbie	Groome
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire, one of the south-western counties of Scotland, and the most important county of the country. It ranks only	Groome
  LONDON	London London	Busby, Nell Gwynn, the Duchess of Cleveland, Judge Jeffreys, Colonel Blood, Dr. Sacheverel, Ludowick Muggleton, Joe Miller, Jack Sheppard, Cocker, Hoyle, John Wilkes, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord George Gordon, Joanna Southcott, and John Horne Tooke. Many places of residence and death of eminent persons have been indicated in our section on historical localities; and a few more may here be added. Sir Thomas More resided near the site of Battersea Bridge, in Chelsea; Horace Walpole, in Arlington-street, and in Berkeley-square; Archbishops Land, Sancroft, and Tillotson, in Lambeth-palace; Oliver Cromwell, in LongAcre, in Kingstreet-Westminster	Imperial
  Mearns	Renfrewshire	Mearns, a village and a parish of SE Renfrewshire. The village, called Newton-Mearns (a name as old at least	Groome
  MIDDLESEX	Middlesex	great numbers of fossils. Mineral springs are at Acton, Hampstead, Clerkenwell, and other places. About 150,000 acres are either arable land, meadow, or pasture. The soil is variously clayey, sandy, and gravelly; and has, in most parts, been worked into a fertile loam, by manuring and culture. Most farms average about 100 acres, but many comprise from 200 to 600 acres; and they are usually held on lease of 14 or 21 years. meadow lands form a large aggregate, usually yield two crops of good hay, and are let at from £4 to £6 an acre	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	Great Tom of Oxford, a bell of 17,000 lbs.in weight, brought originally from Osney abbey, re-castin 1680, and tolled every evening at 9·5 to summon allthe scholars of the university to their respective colleges. The first or great quadrangle is entered from the mainfront; measures interiorly 264 feet by 261; was builtmainly under Wolsey's superintendence, or according tohis plans; suffered severe injury, during the civil wars of Charles I.; was restored and completed, in 1660-8, by Dr. John Fell; underwent then a substitution of abalustrade for an open battlement with pinnacles; displays	Imperial
  Renfrewshire	Renfrewshire	great volcanic belt on the N side of the Clyde, forming the Kilpatrick Hills. There can be little doubt of the precise geological position of these volcanic rocks in this county, because, to the W of Loch Thom, they rest conformably on the white sandstones and Cementstones, and where no faults intervene they graduate upwards into the Carboniferous Limestone series. They form a belt of hilly ground stretching across the county in a NW and SE direction, from the hills S of Greenock, by the Gleniffer Braes, to the high grounds round Eaglesham. In the E portion, the volcanic rocks	Groome
  STILLORGAN	Dublin	Busby, Esq.; Beaufield, of H. Darley, Esq; Oatlands, of M. Pollock, Esq.; the Grove, of J. Hughes, Esq.; Woodview, of G. W. Boileau, Esq.; Riversdale, of J. W. Barlow, Esq.; Stillorgan, of R. Guinness, Esq.; Dunstaffnage Lodge, of R. H. Sheehan, Esq.; Talbot Lodge, of Capt. Newenham; Limeville, of H. B. Reeves, Esq.; Rose Hill, of Mrs. Drevar; Maryville, of L. H. Thomas, Esq.; Oakley Park, of R. Everard, Esq.; Jane Villa, of Mrs. Wilson; Elm Grove, of Mrs. Richards; Littleton, of W. Wilson, Esq., M.D.; and Waltersland, of W. H. Smith, Esq. The village is within the delivery	Lewis:Ireland
  STOKESLEY	Yorkshire	Great Busby, Little Busby, Newby, and Easby townships. Acres, 6,239. Pop., 2,401. Houses, 547. The living is a rectory	Imperial
  TANEY, or TAWNEY	Dublin	greatly improved the demesne, and now the seat of R. Manders, Esq.; Mount Anville, of the Hon. Chas. Burton, second justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, situated on elevated ground commanding fine mountain and sea views, and remarkable for its richly cultivated gardens and extensive conservatories; Taney Hill, of W. Bourne, Esq.; Seafield, of T. Beasley, Esq.; Bellefield, of T. Wallace, Esq.; Bellevue Lodge, of the Rev. C. Wolsley; Runnimede, of J. Fitzpatrick, Esq.; Moreen, of D. Mc Kay, Esq.; Drummartin Castle, of Mrs. Dawson; Campfield House, of S. Boxwell, Esq.; Anneville, of Sir Geo. Whitford, Bart.; Woodbine	Lewis:Ireland

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