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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 OVERTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ayrshire	Ayrshire	West Kilbride; and the principal villages are Afton-Bridgend, Alnwick-Lodge, Ballantrae, Barrmill, Bensley, Castle, Colmonell, Common-Dyke, Connel Park, Craigbank, Craigmark, Cronberry, Crosshill, Crosshouse, Dailly, Dalrymple, Den, Dernconner, Doura, Drakemuir, Dreghorn, Dunlop, Elderslie, Fardlehill, Fairlie, Fenwick, Fergushill, Gaswater, Gateside, Glenbuck, Glengarnock, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Langbar, Monkton, New Prestwick, Ochiltree, Overton	Groome
  Dumbarton	Dunbartonshire	Overton Burn, tracing munch of the south-eastern boundary, and itself joined by Black Burn, flows direct to the Clyde. The southern and western districts, to the mean distance of 1¼ mile from the Leven, present no striking natural feature except the Castle Rock, in whose vicinity they lie so little above sea-level as to be sometimes flooded by spring tides. From this low valley the surface rises north-eastward to Auchenreoch and Dumbarton Muirs, attaining 895 feet at Knockshanoch, 1228 at Doughnot Hill, 1118 at Knockupple, and 892 at Knockvadie. Limestone abounds at Murroch Glen	Groome
  Dunbar	East Lothian	Dunbar (Gael. dun-barr, ` fort on the point '), a town and a parish on the north-eastern coast of Haddingtonshire	Groome
  FRODSHAM	Cheshire	west end stood Frodsham Castle, supposed to have been of Norman origin, -given by Edward I. to David, the brother of Llewelyn, the last sovereign prince of Wales, -given afterwards to the Savages, Earls Rivers, -and burnt in 1642. A handsome modern house occupies the site of the castle. The town has a post office‡ under Preston Brook, a railway station, a harbour for small vessels, and two chief inns; and fairs are beld at it on 16 May, 21 Aug., and 13 Dec. Beacon hill, adjacent to it, was formerly surmounted by a beacon; is traversed, round	Imperial
  FYFIELD	Wiltshire	West Overton township, Lockeridge tything, and Overton Heath and Clatford Park extra-parochial tracts, 5, 400. Real property, with West	Imperial
  KINGSCLERE	Hampshire	Overton r. station, and 9 NW of Basingstoke; was a seat of the West Saxon kings; has declined from ancient	Imperial
  LEICESTERSHIRE, or LEICESTER	Leicestershire	west-sonth-westward, past Hinckley, toward a junction with the Trent Valley line at Nuneaton. A branch line deflects from the Midland Counties in the southern vicinity of Leicester, and goes 5¾ miles west-north-westward to the vicinity of Desford. And another line goes from Leicester westward and northwestward, past a junction with the previous branch near Desford, and past Swannington and Ashbyde-la-Zouch, toward a junction with the North Staffordshire at Burton-upon-Trent. The turnpike roads extend aggregately to about 300 miles; and the cross-roads, to about 1,400 miles. Leicestershire contains 207 parishes	Imperial
  Overton	Yorkshire	Overton , hamlet, Thornhill par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles SW. of Wakefield.	Bartholomew
  OVERTON	Wiltshire	OVERTON , a village in Marlborough district, and a parish partly also in Pewsey district, Wilts. The village stands on the river Kennet, 4 miles W by S of Marlborough r. station; and is a small place. The parish comprises the township of West	Imperial
  Overton, West	Wiltshire	Overton, West , township, Overton par., Wilts, 4 miles SW. of Marlborough, pop. 673.	Bartholomew
  OVERTON (West)	Wiltshire	OVERTON (West) , a township in Overton parish, Wilts; on the river Kennet, 4 miles W by S of Marlborough. Pop., 429. Houses	Imperial
  Renfrewshire	Renfrewshire	Renfrewshire, anciently Strathgryfe, is a maritime county on the W coast of Scotland. Although only twenty-seventh among the Scottish	Groome
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	west-north-westward, past Bishops-Castle, toward Montgomery; a line goes from the W one southward to Minsterley, and was in the course of being prolonged in 1868 toward Montgomery; a line, coming in from Montgomeryshire, crosses the W wing of the county, past Oswestry, into junction with the NW line from Shrewsbury; a line deflects from the preceding at Oswestry, and goes north-eastward, past Ellesmere, into junction at Whitchurch with the N line from Shrewsbury; a line in course of formation in 1868, connects the two preceding from Ellesmere south-eastward to Wem; and a line goes from	Imperial

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