You searched for "WEST CAMEL" 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 12 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 "WEST CAMEL" (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 "WEST CAMEL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALAN, or Camel (The)		Camel (The), a river of CornwalI. It rises near Davidstow; runs southward, past Camelford, Michael stow, and Helland, to Bodmin; then goes west	Imperial
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	West Chinnock, Stoke-sub-Hamden, and Tintinhull. The deanery of Merston contains the rectories of Abbas-Combe, Ashington, Barwick, West Camel	Imperial
  CAMELFORD	Cornwall	Camel, on the skirt of a moorish upland tract, 12 miles N by E of Bodmin, and 14 N of Bodmin-road r. station. It is an ancient place; was incorporated by one of the Cornish Earls; sent two members to parliament, till disfranchised by the act of 1832; and has still a corporation. Two battles were fought near it; the one in 543, between King Arthur and his nephew Mordred, fatal to both; the other in 823, between Egbert and the Cornishmen. "Ossian" Macpherson represented the borough in parliament; and Captain Wallis, the discoverer of Tahiti, was born	Imperial
  CAMEL (Queen)	Somerset	CAMEL (Queen) , a village and a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset. The village stands near the river Yeo, on an affluent of that river, 1 mile SW of Sparkford r. station, and 6 ENE of Ilchester; and has a post office‡ under Taunton. Fairs are held at it on 11 June and 25 Oct.; and a sulphurous spring, of some note, is a mile to the west	Imperial
  Camel, West	Somerset	Camel, West , par., mid. Somerset, on river Yeo, 4 miles NE. of Ilchester, 1953 ac., pop. 281.	Bartholomew
  CAMEL (West)	Somerset	CAMEL (West) , a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; on the river Yeo, 2 miles NW of Marston r. station, and 4 ENE of Ilchester	Imperial
  CORNWALL	Cornwall	west coast; and only very fertile valleys and bottoms, together with pieces of exceedingly romantic scenery, redeem the entire county from one general aspect of dreariness and desert. The chief rivers are the Tamar, the Lynher, the Looe, the Fowey, the Camel	Imperial
  DOWNHEAD	Somerset	DOWNHEAD , a hamlet in West Camel parish, Somerset; 3¼ miles ENE of Ilchester.	Imperial
  Sterthill	Somerset	Sterthill , hamlet, West Camel par., Somerset, 5 miles SW. of Castle Cary.	Bartholomew
  STERTHILL	Somerset	STERTHILL , a hamlet in West Camel parish, Somerset; 5½ miles SW of Castle-Cary.	Imperial
  Urgashay	Somerset	Urgashay , hamlet, West Camel par., Somerset, 3 miles NE. of Ilchester.	Bartholomew
  URGASHAY	Somerset	URGASHAY , a hamlet in West Camel parish, Somerset; 3¼ miles ENE of Ilchester.	Imperial

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• 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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