You searched for "SOUTH GOSFORTH" 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 10 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  SOUTH GOSFORTH LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	GOSFORTH UD (Local Government District)

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find units with names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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 "SOUTH GOSFORTH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BLENG (The)	Cumberland	runs 6 miles south-westward to the vicinity of Gosforth, then goes 2½ miles thence eastward to the Irt.	Imperial
  BRANDLING RAILWAY	County Durham	South Shields, and Sunderland, and makes a junction with the Newcastle and Carlisle railway; was opened in September 1839; took its name from the projector, Robert W. Brandling, Esq. of Low Gosforth	Imperial
  CARLISLE	Cumberland	CARLISLE , a city and a district in Cumberland; and a diocese in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire The city stands on	Imperial
  DURHAM	County Durham	South Hetton, Haswell, Herrington, Newbottle, South Hylton, Thornley, Shadforth, New Seaham, Trimdon, Ford, Hendon, Ryhope, Deptford-St. Andrew, and Deptford-St. Thomas. The deanery of Stockton contains the rectories of Low Dinsdale, Egglescliffe, Elton, Elwick-Hall, Hurworth, Long Newton, Middleton, Redmarshall, Sedgfield, and Staynton-le-Street; the vicarages of Billingham, Bishopton, Greatham, Grindon, Hart, Bishops-Middleham, Norton, Sockburn, Stockton-on-Tees, and Stranton; and the p. curacies of Haverton-Hill, Wolviston, Hart-Trinity, West Hartlepool, Stockton-Trinity, and Seaton-Carew. The archdeaconry of Lindisfarne comprises the deaneries of Alnwick,Bambrough, Morpeth, Norham, and Rothbury. The deanery of Alnwick contains	Imperial
  Gosforth	Northumberland	Gosforth , par. and ry. sta., S. Northumberland, 2 miles N. of Newcastle, 6472 ac., pop. 5557; P.O., T.O.; and P.O. at Gosforth Colliery; 2 miles N. of sta. is the seat of Gosforth Hall; the par. contains the townships of North Gosforth , 1088 ac., pop. 230; and South	Bartholomew
  GOSFORTH	Northumberland	GOSFORTH , two townships and a parish in Castle Ward district, Northumberland. The townships are South G. and North G.; and they	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , a town, four parishes, and a district, in Northumberland. The town stands on the river Tyne at	Imperial
  NORTHUMBERLAND	Northumberland	south-south-eastward, past Ford, to the vicinity of Rothbury; another, a short branch line, deflects from the North-eastern at Bilton, and goes northwestward to Alnwick; and another, the Berwick and Kelso, leaves the North eastern at Tweedmouth, and goes up the Tweed, past Norham and Cornhill, into Scotland at Kelso. The roads, so long ago as 1814, comprised 458 miles of paved streets and turnpike roads, and 2, 322 miles of other high-ways used for wheeled-carriages. The county contains 90 parishes, part of another parish, and 6 extra-parochial tracts; and is divided into the boroughs	Imperial
  South Gosforth	Northumberland	Gosforth , town with ry. sta. (Gosforth), Gosforth par., Northumberland, 2 miles N. of Newcastle, pop. 4126; P.O., T.O., called Gosforth; comprises the townships of South	Bartholomew

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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