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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 "NICHOL FOREST":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	Aberdeen, the ' Granite City,' capital of Aberdeenshire, seat of a university, and chief town and seaport in the North of	Groome
  CARLISLE	Cumberland	Nichol-Forest, and Walton. The deanery of Carlisle includes the rectories of Arthuret, Kirkandrews-upon-Eden, Beaumont, Kirkandrews-upon-Esk, Kirkhampton	Imperial
  Falkland	Fife	Falkland, a small town and a parish in the Cupar district of Fifeshire. The town stands at the NE base	Groome
  KIRK-ANDREWS-UPON-ESK	Cumberland	Nichol-Forest is much subdivided. Part of the surface is moor and bog. The manor belongs to Sir F. U. Graham	Imperial
  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
  LONGTOWN	Cumberland	Nichol-Forest. Acres, 48,637. Pop., 3,291. Houses, 529. L. L. sub-d. contains the parishes of Arthuret, Kirklinton	Imperial
  Nichol Forest	Cumberland	Nichol Forest , township, Kirk Andrews upon Esk par., Cumberland, 12 miles NE. of Longtown, 8497 ac., pop. 627.	Bartholomew
  NICHOL-FOREST	Cumberland	NICHOL-FOREST , a chapelry in Kirkandrews-upon-Esk parish, Cumberland; on Kershope burn and the river Liddel, and on the North	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	OXFORD , a city and a university in Oxfordshire, partly also in Berks, and a diocese comprehending nearlyall Oxfordshire and Berks	Imperial
  Strichen	Aberdeenshire	forest trees of full growth.' Boswell adds that they went out of their way to see the circle, as Dr Johnson was anxious to inspect an example. Their entertainer was Lord Strichen's son, at one time an officer in the King's Dragoon Guards, and seemingly a somewhat eccentric personage. It was he who founded the village of New Leeds, which was intended to be a rival to the great Yorkshire town of that name, but which never throve, and is only a poor straggling hamlet. There were to be statutory fairs, and the laird offered a prize	Groome

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