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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 "WREST":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Arran	Buteshire	wrested Arran and Bute from the power of Norway, and retained possession of them till his defeat and death at Renfrew	Groome
  BALLYCLUG	Antrim	wrested from them a considerable portion of the manor of Crebilly, or the "Kearte," which he divided among	Lewis:Ireland
  BURY-ST. EDMUNDS	Suffolk	wresting from him the Magna Charta. The Dauphin Louis plundered the Abbey in 1216, and took away Edmund's body	Imperial
  Coldingham	Berwickshire	wrested the sceptre from Donald, with Wil liam Rufus' assistance, and fighting beneath the banner of St Cuthbert. To St Cuthbert	Groome
  HOWTH	Dublin	wrested from the mainland by some convulsion, and cleft into two parts, near the summit of one of which is a representation	Lewis:Ireland
  Inverness	Inverness Shire	wrested from them, and again used as a royal fort. In 1718 the government of George I. repaired it, converted	Groome
  MAN, or ISLE of MAN	the Isle of Man	wrested it from the Scots about 625, but held it with such uncertain grasp that it reverted to them at his death	Imperial
  MERCIA		wrested from Wessex all her territories on the left of the Thames; drove the Welsh beyond the Wye; constructed the rampart	Imperial
  Monkland	Lanarkshire	wrested from them. In 1587 the barony of Monkland was granted in fee to Mark Ker, the commentator of the abbey	Groome
  Moray, Province of	Moray	wresting the province from ' Findlaec, son of Ruadri, Mormaer Moreb, ' brother of the Melbrigda just mentioned, and the Finnleikr Jarl	Groome
  NENAGH	Tipperary	wrested by Lord Inchiquin. Ireton, in his march against Limerick in 1651, invested the town and compelled the garrison to surrender	Lewis:Ireland
  NORFOLK	Norfolk	wrested from Edmund Ironside, first a division of all England, next the entire kingdom; and then committed East Anglia to the care	Imperial
  Orkney	Orkney	wresting much landed property from the rightful owners, and terrified not a few of the odal proprietors into a surrender	Groome
  RATHDRUM	Wicklow	wrested from Pheagh Mac Hugh Byrne, the most active and formidable chieftain of these parts in his time, by Sir William	Lewis:Ireland
  SILSOE	Bedfordshire	Wrest Park, belongs to Countess Cowper. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £150.* Patron	Imperial
  TYRONE	Tyrone	wrested from him by Hugh, the son of Matthew O'Nial, who, after performing some services to the English in the war against	Lewis:Ireland
  Wrest Park	Bedfordshire	Wrest Park , seat of Earl Cowper, Bedfordshire, 4 miles SW. of Shefford.	Bartholomew
  WREST PARK	Bedfordshire	WREST PARK , the seat of Countess Cowper in Silsoe parish, Beds; 4 miles SW of Shefford. The mansion was built	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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