You searched for "THAMES HAVEN" 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 "THAMES HAVEN" (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 "THAMES HAVEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ERITH	Kent	Thames, and on the London and Gravesend railway, 3½ miles NW of Dartford; was known to the Saxons as Ærrehythe, signifying the old haven	Imperial
  HAMPTON (LITTLE)	Sussex	haven of Arundel; and it recently was made the head port of Arundel, and the seat of the custom house. Its trade, as a port, is considerable; and its inland navigation communicates, through the Wey and Arun canal, with the Thames	Imperial
  HARWICH	Essex	HARWICH , a sea port town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Tendring district, Essex. The town stands at the NE	Imperial
  HOLE-HAVEN, or HOLY-HAVEN	Essex	HAVEN , or HOLY-HAVEN, a creek on the S coast of Essex; entering from the Thames, 1½ mile E of Thames	Imperial
  LAMBETH	Surrey	Thames, opposite Westminster, 1¾ mile SW by S of St. Paul's; stands compact with Southwark, Newington, and Kennington; communicates with Westminster by Waterloo, Hungerford, Westminster, Lambeth, and Vauxhall bridges; contains the Waterloo-Road terminus and the Vauxhall-Bridge station of the Southwestern railway; is traversed throughout by that railway, and across the NE by the connecting line with Charing Cross and London Bridge; has abundant facilities of pier and wharf for sharing in the upper traffic of the river; is within the jurisdiction of the central criminal court, and of the metropolitan police; and contains a court-house	Imperial
  THAMES-HAVEN	Essex	THAMES-HAVEN , a place on the S verge of Essex; on the river Thames, 3½ miles E by S of Stanford	Imperial

  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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