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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 "WEST HATCH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ARDEE	Louth	west fronts are defended by projecting towers, which rise above the rest of the building. In the centre of the town is also another ancient castle, which has long been in the possession of the Hatch	Lewis:Ireland
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	West, Drayton, Earnshill, Eastham, Hatch-Beauchamp, Hinton-St. George, East Lambrook-in-Kingsbury-Episcopi, Puckington, Seaborough, Seavington-St. Michael, Shepton	Imperial
  CHARTHAM	Kent	Hatch and Shalmsford-Street. Acres, 4,530. Real property, £6,672. Pop., 1,094. Houses, 242. The property is much subdivided. The manor was given, in 871, to Christ Church, Canterbury; belongs now to the Chapter there; and is still called the Deanery. Chartham downs, above the village, have remains of a number of tumuli, called Danes' Banks; and are marked by lines of ancient entrenchments. One of the earliest discoveries of great fossil bones, giving rise to the modern science of palæontology, was made, in 1668, at Chartham, in the sinking of a well. A large	Imperial
  CURRY (North)	Somerset	West Hatch and Stoke-St. Gregory are separate benefices. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and a national school. -The sub-district	Imperial
  DUBLIN	Dublin	DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53	Lewis:Ireland
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Edinburgh, the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian, is situated 2 miles S of the Firth of Forth	Groome
  Hatch, West	Somerset	Hatch, West , par. and vil., W. Somerset, 4 miles SE. of Taunton, 1681 ac., pop. 415.	Bartholomew
  HATCH (West)	Somerset	HATCH (West) , a village and a parish in Taunton district, Somerset. The village stands near the Hatch station of the Chard	Imperial
  HILLINGDON	Middlesex	Hatch, ColhamGreen, Long Atter, and Hockley Hole; and a detached part of it is encompassed by Ickenham parish. Acres, 4, 720. Real property, £32, 230; of which £200 are in the canal, and £250 in gas works. Pop. in 1851, 9, 588; in 1861, 10, 758. Houses, 2, 052. Pop., exclusive of Uxbridge, in 1851, 6, 352; in 1861, 7, 522. Houses, 1, 424. The increase of pop. arose partly from the erection of barracks. The Uxbridge workhouse is in ColhamGreen; and, at the census of 1861, had 211 inmates. Moorcroft lunatic asylum is in Gould-Green	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	West; and by the act of 1867, into three, East, Mid, and WEST. The divisions East and West are also historical, insomuch that the people of East Kent call themselves Men of Kent, and claim a superiority on account of ancient privileges, while the people of West Kent are called Kentish men. The registration county gives off two parishes to Sussex districts, and nine parishes and most of another to London districts; comprises, 1, 013, 838 acres; and is divided into the districts of Bromley, Dartford, Gravesend, North Aylesford, Hoo, Medway, Malling, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge, Maidstone, Hollingbourn, Cranbrook, Tenterden, West Ashford	Imperial
  KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES	Surrey	Hatch; and it is ecclesiastically divided into seven parts. Acres, 4, 765. Real property, £115, 971; of which £670 are in gas works. Pop. in 1851, 12, 144; in 1861, 17, 792. Houses, 3, 134. Mansions and villas are numerous. An old building in the old town, with heavy beams of Spanish chestnut, bears the name of King John's dairy, but is much later than his time. The Hogs mill or New mill river, after a run of about 6½ miles, goes through the town to the Thames, and works several mills in its course	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	West Ham, Great Ilford, and Leyton: the p. curacies of Stratford-St. John, Plaistow-St. Mary, Victoria Docks, West Ham-Emmanuel-church, West Ham-Christchurch, Barking-Side, Aldborough-Hatch	Imperial
  PINNER	Middlesex	West-End, East-End, Hatch-End, and Woodridings; and was formerly a part of Harrow parish. Acres, 3, 720. Real	Imperial
  TISBURY	Wiltshire	West T.; and prior to 1834, they and Wardour formed one parish, comprising the tythings of Tisbury, Chicksgrove, Staple, and Hatch	Imperial

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