We could not match "AVOCH" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 15 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 "AVOCH" (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 "AVOCH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Arkindeith	Ross Shire	Avoch parish, Rossshire. It seems to have belonged to a castellated mansion of the early part of the 17th century	Groome
  Arkindeith	Ross Shire	Arkindeith , ruined tower, Avoch par., Ross-shire.	Bartholomew
  Avoch	Ross Shire	Avoch , par. and fishing vil. in Black Isle, E. Ross-shire, 1¾ mile SW. of Fortrose -- par., 8030 ac., pop. 1691; vil., pop. 905; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Avoch	Ross Shire	Avoch; and on Rosehaugh he has built a fine new mansion in the Renaissance style ( Trans. Highl. and Ag. Soe., 1877, pp. 104-107). Avoch	Groome
  Black Isle	Cromarty Nairnshire Ross Shire	Avoch, Rosemarkie, Cromarty, Resolis, and Urquhart; and it consists largely over its north-western portion of the broad based hill	Groome
  Chanonry	Ross Shire	Avoch, Cromarty, Killearnan, Resolis, and Knockbain, the quoad sacra parish of Fortrose, and the Gaelic church of Cromarty; is in the synod	Groome
  Killen	Ross and Cromarty	Killen , place with school, Avoch par., SE. Ross and Cromarty, 3 miles W. of Fortrose; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Kirkmichael or Resolis	Cromarty Ross Shire	Avoch, and SW by Urquhart. Its utmost length, from NE to SW, is 6¾ miles; its utmost breadth is 3¾ miles	Groome
  Kirkton		Avoch, Balmerino, Banchory, Blantyre, Burntisland, Carluke, Cumbrae, Dunnichen, Ewes, Fetteresso, Fordoun, Fenwick, Gargunnock, Glenelg, Glenisla, Guthrie, Hobkirk, East Kilbride, Kilmaurs	Groome
  Knockbain	Ross Shire	Avoch, SE by the Moray Firth, S by the Beauly Firth, SW and W by Killearnan, and NW by Urquhart	Groome
  Rosehaugh	Ross Shire	Avoch parish, Ross-shire, 4 miles WSW of Fortrose. In 1864 it was purchased for £145,000 from Sir James	Groome
  Rosehaugh	Ross and Cromarty	Rosehaugh , seat, Avoch par., Ross and Cromarty, 4 miles SW. of Fortrose.	Bartholomew
  Rosemarkie	Ross Shire	Avoch, and W and NW by Kirkmichael. The boundary on the N is the Burn of Ethie. The extreme length	Groome
  Ross-shire	Ross Shire	Avoch, Rosemarkie, and Ethie Burns; and the Cromarty Firth receives Newhall Burn (S) at Udale Bay, the Conan from Strath	Groome
  Urquhart and Logie Wester	Nairnshire Ross Shire	Avoch, Kilmuir Wester, Killearnan (detached), Kilmuir Wester, and Killearnan; SW and W by the parish of Urray; and NW by the parish	Groome

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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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