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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 "STAMFORD BROOK":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHISWICK	Middlesex	Stamford-Brook, Strand-on-the-Green, and Little-Sutton. Acres, 1, 311. Real property, £26, 159. Pop., 6, 505. Houses	Imperial
  HACKNEY	Middlesex	Brooke House, lunatic asylnm, 96; Pembroke House, lunatic asylnm, 157; London House, lnnatic asylnm, 22; and Mare Street House, lunatic asylnm, 15. But the French Protestant hospital, by Victoria Park, was built in 1865; and there are a literary institution, a mechanics' institute, and two suites of almshouses. The endowed charities, including those for schools, and for Homerton academy, amount to £2, 949. Sir R. Sadlier, Dr. South, John Howard, the philanthropist, and Major André, who suffered death by order of Washington, were natives; and the Earl of Oxford, the poet; Dr. Mandeville, the author of the ' ' Fable	Imperial
  HARBOROUGH (MARKET)	Leicestershire	Stamford. The family of Sherard took from it the title of Earl; and had an old seat, afterwards converted into the King's Head inn, close to the Roman camp. The town consists of one spacious principal street, and several small streets or alleys; is well built; and contains many good houses. The town hall, in High street, was built in 1788, by the Earl of Harborough; and is a large edifice, with the ground floor disposed as a meat market. The corn exchange, also in High street, was built in 1858; and is used for a county court	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	Brook House, Brooklands, Broughton House, Broughton Tower, Brynbella, Burrow Hall, Butt Hill, Calderstone, Capernwray Hall, Carr House, Carter Place Hall, Castlehead, Castleton Hall, Centre Vale, Catterall House, Chadswell, Chaigley Manor, Chattertonhay, Childwall Hall, Claremont Hall, Claughton Hall, Clayton Hall, Clifton Hall, Clifton Hill, Clitheroe Castle, Conishead Priory, Conynger Hurst, Cooper Hill, Crabtree House, Croft House, Croftlands, Crosby Hall, Crosslands, Croston Hall, Cuerden Hall, the Dales, Daltongate House, Dalton Hall, Darcy-Lever Hall, Darwen Bank, Ditton Hall, Downham Hall, Dunkenhalgh Park, Druton House, Dykelands, Duxbury, Elton Bank, Eccleston Hall, Elmfield Hall, Ellel Grange, Ellel Hall, Escowbeck Hall, Esthwaite Lodge, Euxton Hall	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	LINCOLN , a city and a district in Lincolnshire, and a diocese partly also in Notts. The city stands on Ermine	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
  MOSSLEY	Cheshire Lancashire Yorkshire	Stamford-road, was built in 1867, is in the Lombardo-Venetian style, and contains 600 sittings. The mechanics' institute was built in 1858, and is a large and well-contrived stone structure. Fairs are held on the last Friday of Feb., 21 June, and the last Monday of Oct.; and wakes are held on the last Saturday of July. The chief residences in the vicinity are Apsley House, G. Andrew, Esq.; Whitehall, G. Mayall, Esq.; Highfield House, J. Mayall, Esq.; Breage Hill, S. Shaw, Esq.; Waterton, E. and J. Buckley, Esq.; Limefield, if,. Andrew, Esq.; and Valley Cottage, J. Kershaw	Imperial
  ROSTHERNE	Cheshire	Stamford; Agden, to Sir J. L. N. Chetwode, Bart.; Mere, chieflyto T. J. L. Brooke, Esq.; and High Leigh, to Lord	Imperial
  WHETSTONE	Leicestershire	Stamford. Framework knitting is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £150.* Patron,Brook	Imperial

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