You searched for "OLD CAMBUS" 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 6 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 "OLD CAMBUS" (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 "OLD CAMBUS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Alloa	Clackmannanshire	Alloa, a river-port, a seat of manufacture, and the chief town of Clackmannanshire, lies on the N bank of	Groome
  Great North of Scotland Railway	Aberdeenshire Banffshire Inverness Shire Moray	Old Meldrum branch runs to the right. Near Inveramsay station, 20½ miles, the junction for the Macduff branch, is the scene of the Battle of Harlaw, and near it the visitor will find Balquhain Castle, visited by Mary Stuart in 1562; and Pitcaple, the next station, 21¼ miles, is the best point from which to ascend the Hill of Bennachie, a conspicuous landmark in the district of Buchan. At Oyne station, 24½ miles, the traveller is in the immediate neighbourhood of the Gadie, famous in song. Insch is 27½ miles, and further on, where Wardhouse station	Groome
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	old volcanic orifices, probably of Permian age. Still more interesting are the long narrow dykes of basalt of Miocene age which are found throughout the county. Two of them run parallel with each other from the Hagshaw Hills near Douglas, SE by Abington to near the county boundary. In the N part of the Clyde basin another of these dykes is traceable from Chryston by Greengairs to Limerig. The direction of the ice-flow in the upper part of the county is toward the N, but on reaching the great midland valley where the ice from the southern uplands coalesced	Groome
  North British Railway	Berwickshire Midlothian	North British Railway, a railway whose name was first applied only to the line from Edinburgh to Berwick, and now	Groome
  Stirling	Stirlingshire	old town, the principal path in this latter portion being the Back Walk with its fine trees. It was laid out in 1724 at the instigation of William Edmonstone of Cambus	Groome
  Stirlingshire	Stirlingshire	old orchards planted and tended by the monks in the E of the county none now remain; but 27 acres were in 1884 used as orchards and 27 as market gardens. According to the Micellaneous Statistics of the United Kingdom (1879), 284, 751 acres, with a total gross estimated rental of £521, 407, are divided among 4257 proprietors, the Duke of Montrose holding 68, 878 acres (rental £15, 706), Mr Forbes of Callendar 13, 041 (£16, 215), and eight together 55, 342 (£54,977), fourteen 48, 052 (£48, 758), eighteen	Groome

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