The Vision of Britain system holds the full text of three 19th century descriptive gazetteers, a total of over 90,000 entries:

• John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872)
• Frances Groome's The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885)
• John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)

You can search either the 'head words', i.e. the places the entries are for, or the full text of each entry. Head word searches can include asterisks ('*') to match characters you are not sure of, or look for 'sound-alikes'. Searches may be narrowed by area (nation or county) or by type (based on the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus). Head word searches for exact matches are much the quickest.