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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 KINGTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BULLINGHAM	Herefordshire	BULLINGHAM , a hamlet on the west border of Herefordshire; 3 miles from Kington.	Imperial
  CHIPPENHAM	Wiltshire	West Kington, and North Wraxhall; and the sub-district of Christian-Malford, containing the parishes of Christian-Malford, Kington-St. Michael	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	West Kington, Langley-Burrell, Leigh-Delamere, Littleton-Drew, Nettleton, North Wraxall, and Yatton-Keynell; the vicarages of Alderton, Chippenham, Colerne	Imperial
  HEREFORD, HAY, AND BRECON RAILWAY	Brecknockshire Herefordshire	West Midland at Barton station; and an act of June 1862 authorized various alterations of levels and deviations of the line, The railway goes from Hereford city west-uorth-westward to Eardisley; and goes thence southwestward, throngh Hay. to Brecon. It was opened to Eardisley, in June 1863; to Three-Cocks Junction, 5¼ miles SW of Hay, in Jan. 1865; and to Brecon, in the same year. It will be connected, at Eardisley, with a line going north-north-eastward into junction with the Kington	Imperial
  KINGSLAND	Herefordshire	Kington railway, 4 miles WNW of Leominster; is said to have had a castle, where King Merwald was buried; was once a market town; is well built, and of considerable extent; and has a station on the railway, a head post office, ‡ designated Kingsland, Herefordshire, and a fair on 11 Oct. The parish includes the townships of Aston, Lawton, Street, Longford, and West	Imperial
  Kington, West	Wiltshire	Kington, West , par. and vil., in NW. of Wilts, 8 miles NW. of Chippenham, 2444 ac., pop. 303.	Bartholomew
  KINGTON (WEST)	Wiltshire	KINGTON (WEST) , a parish, with a village, in Chippenham district, Wilts; near Akeman street and the boundary with Gloucester, 8 miles	Imperial
  LEOMINSTER AND KINGTON RAILWAY	Herefordshire	KINGTON RAILWAY , a railway in Herefordshire; from a junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford at Leominster, 13¼ miles westward to Kington. It is a single line; was formed on a capital of £80,000; and was opened in Aug. 1857. Authority was obtained in 1863 for leasing it to the West	Imperial
  LEOMINSTERpopularly LEMSTER-a town	Herefordshire	Kington railway, 13 miles N of Hereford. Its name is supposed to be a compound of either Leof, signifying ''beloved, ''or Leo, signifying ''lion, ''and Minster, signifying ' ' a large or monastic church; ''and was written at Domesday, Leofminstre. The prefix Leof appears to have been the true one, and was used by the Saxons; while the prefix Leo seems to have been a corruption, introduced by writers of the middle ages. A monastery, with large church or minster, was founded at the town, and a castle or palace ½ a mile to the E, about the year 658, by Merewald	Imperial
  PERSHORE	Worcestershire	PERSHORE , a town, two parishes, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Worcestershire. The town stands in the	Imperial
  WARWICKSHIRE, or Warwick	Warwickshire	WARWICKSHIRE , or Warwick, an inland county, bounded, on the NW, by Staffordshire; on the NE, by Leicestershire; on the E	Imperial

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