We could not match "BUTLEY" 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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• 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 "BUTLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Butley	Suffolk	Butley , par., E. Suffolk, 3 miles W. of Orford, 1978 ac., 21 tidal water, and 40 foreshore, pop. 383; p.o.; has the ruins	Bartholomew
  Butley	Cheshire	Butley .-- township, Prestbury par., E. Cheshire, 3 miles N. of Macclesfield, 1811 ac., pop. 552; contains Butley Hall	Bartholomew
  BUTLEY	Suffolk	BUTLEY , a parish in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; on a sea-creek of its own name, 3 miles W of Orford	Imperial
  BUTLEY	Cheshire	BUTLEY , a township in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Birmingham railway, adjacent to Prestbury station, 3 miles N of Macclesfield	Imperial
  Chillesford	Suffolk	Chillesford , par., E. Suffolk, on river Butley, 4 m. SE. of Wickham Market Junction, 1853 ac., pop. 233.	Bartholomew
  CHILLESFORD	Suffolk	Butley, 3 miles NW of Orford, and 4¼ ESE of Wickham-Market Junction r. station. Post town, Orford, under	Imperial
  DEBENHAM	Suffolk	Butley priory; and passed to the Framlinghams, the Gandys, the Pitts, the Bridges, and others. The living is a vicarage	Imperial
  Gedgrave	Suffolk	Gedgrave , par. and hamlet, E. Suffolk, on Butley Creek, 2 miles SW. of Orford, 1809 ac., pop. 66.	Bartholomew
  GEDGRAVE	Suffolk	tract in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; on Butley creek, 2¼ miles SW by W of Orford. Pop., 60. Houses, 12.	Imperial
  MACCLESFIELD	Cheshire	Butley, Mottram-St. Andrew, Fallybroom, and Upton, in Prestbury parish; the subdistrict of Rainow, containing the townships of Rainow, Macclesfield	Imperial
  ORFORD	Suffolk	Butley-creek; and was long a good harbour, but became choked by shifting shingles. A gentlycurved promontory, called Orfordness, projects	Imperial
  PLOMESGATE	Suffolk	Butley, and the extra-parochial tracts of Havergate-Island, and Gedgrave; the sub-district of Aldeburgh, containing the parishes of Aldeburgh	Imperial
  PRESTBURY	Cheshire	Butley, Mottram, St. Andrew, Fallybroom, Upton, Tytherington, Hurdsfield, Bollington, Pott-Shrigley, Lyme-Handley, Kettleshulme, Rainow, Macclesfield, Macclesfield-Forest, Sutton, Wildboarclough	Imperial
  SNAPE	Suffolk	Butley abbey; went, at the dissolution, to the Duke of Norfolk; and is now a farmhouse. A branch railway, for goods	Imperial

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