We could not match "BROCKLESBY" 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 14 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 "BROCKLESBY" (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 "BROCKLESBY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Brocklesby	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby , par. and ry. sta., N. Lincolnshire, 9 miles NW. of Great Grimshy, 3860 ac., pop. 262.	Bartholomew
  BROCKLESBY	Lincolnshire	BROCKLESBY , a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln; adjacent to the Great Grimsby and Sheffield railway, 9 miles WNW of Great	Imperial
  Brocklesby Park	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby Park , on the Wolds, 1½ mile SW. of sta., is the seat of the Earl of Yarborough.	Bartholomew
  CAISTOR, or Castor	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby, Keelby, Riby, Limber Magna, Bigby, Somerby, Scarby-with-Ownby, Grasby, Nettleton, Cabourn, Swallow, Cuxwold, Rothwell, Croxby, Thorganby, Swinhope, Thoresway	Imperial
  CROXBY	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £120.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church	Imperial
  CROXTON	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby r. station, and 7 miles NE by E of Glanford-Brigg. Post town, Ulceby. Acres, 1, 630. Real property	Imperial
  FURNEUX-PELHAM	Hertfordshire	Brocklesbys; belonged, in the time of Henry III., to Simon de Furneux; and passed to the Lees, the Newports, the Morleys	Imperial
  GRAYINGHAM	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £501. * Patron, Sir. J.Thorold, Bart. The church	Imperial
  KIRMINGTON	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is old, and was restored and enlarged in 1860. There is a Wesleyan	Imperial
  LIMBER-PARVA	Lincolnshire	LIMBER-PARVA , a hamlet in Brocklesby parish, Lincoln; 2 miles N of Limber-Magna.	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Brocklesby, Nettleton, and Somerby; the vicarages of Cadney, Grassby, Immingham, Keelby, North Kelsey, Great Limber, Riby, Searby, Owmby, and Stallingborough	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	Brocklesby Hall, Uffington Hall, Haverholme Priory, Nocton Park, Grimsthorpe Castle, Burghley House, Burton Hall, Little Grimsby Hall, Manby Hall, Riseholme	Imperial
  MINEHEAD	Somerset	Brocklesby, the friend of Johnson, was a native.—The sub-district contains also six other parishes. Acres, 25,869. Pop., 3,480. Houses	Imperial
  WOLDS (The)	Lincolnshire	past Brocklesby, to Barton-upon-Humber; and measuring about 45 miles in length, and from 5 to 10 in breadth.	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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