You searched for "WEST LEAKE" 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 11 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 LEAKE" (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 LEAKE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BOSTON	Lincolnshire	Leake, parts of the parishes of Fishtoft, Frieston, and Leverton, and the East fen allotment of Boston; the subdistrict of Sibsey, containing the parish of Sibsey, the parochial townships of Carrington, West	Imperial
  GREENWICH	Kent	GREENWICH , a town, a parish, and a district, in Kent. The town is suburban to London, within the jurisdiction of	Imperial
  HARWICH	Essex	HARWICH , a sea port town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Tendring district, Essex. The town stands at the NE	Imperial
  LEAKE	Leicestershire Nottinghamshire	LEAKE , a sub-district in Loughborough district; containing two parishes in Leicestershire, and eleven, including East Leake and West Leake	Imperial
  LEAKE (EAST)	Nottinghamshire	West Leake, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £719.* Patron, the Rev. J. Bateman. The church is later English	Imperial
  Leake, West	Nottinghamshire	Leake, West , par. and vil., Notts, 2 miles W. of East Leake, 1390 ac., pop. 132.	Bartholomew
  LEAKE (WEST)	Nottinghamshire	LEAKE (WEST) , a parish, with a village, in the district of Loughborough, and county of Nottingham; on an affluent of the river	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	West Bridgeford, Clifton, Cotgrave, Gotham, East Leake, West Leake, Normanton-on-Soar, Plumtree, Stanford-on-Soar, Sutton-Bonnington-St. Anne	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
  LOUGHBOROUGH	Leicestershire	Leake, containing the parishes of East Leake, West Leake, Costock, Rempstone, Wysall, Thorpe-Bochart, Stanfordupon-Soar, Normanton-upon-Soar, Sutton	Imperial
  NORTHALLERTON	Yorkshire	Leake, three townships of Osmotherley, the township of Over-Silton, two townships of North Otterington, two townships of Catterick, and the extra-parochial tracts of Lazenby and Cotcliff. Acres, 41, 752. Pop. in 1851, 9, 556; in 1861, 9, 222. Houses, 2,035. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Appleton-upon-Wiske, containing the parishes of West	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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our Historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.