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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  CHARNWOOD LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	LEICESTER CB/MB (Local Government District)

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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 "CHARNWOOD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bardon Hill		Bardon Hill , peak, Charnwood Forest Hills, S. Leicestershire, alt. 853 ft.	Bartholomew
  Black Brook		affluent of river Soar, N. Leicestershire; rises in Charnwood Forest and flows NE. to the Soar opposite Barrow, 9 miles long.	Bartholomew
  Charley		Charley , par., N. Leicestershire, near Charnwood Forest, 5½ miles SW. of Loughborough, 500 ac., pop. 43.	Bartholomew
  CHARLEY, or Charnwood		Charnwood, an extra-parochial tract in Loughborough district, Leicester; on the Wolds, near Charnwood forest, 5¼ miles SW of Loughborough	Imperial
  Charnwood Forest		Charnwood Forest , barren hill tract, N. Leicestershire, 5 miles SW. of Loughborough; it is the loftiest ground in co., reaching	Bartholomew
  CHARNWOOD-FOREST		CHARNWOOD-FOREST , a bare hilly tract, about 20 miles in circuit, in the NE of Leicester; near Charley, 5 miles	Imperial
  COLE-ORTON		Charnwood forest, 3 miles E by N of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Post town, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Acres, 1, 999. Real	Imperial
  Copt Oak		other pars., N. Leicestershire, pop. 460. The hamlet is on the Wolds, near Charnwood-Forest, 5 miles SW. of Loughborough.	Bartholomew
  COPT-OAKS		Charnwood forest, adjacent to the Midland railway, 5 miles SW of Loughborough. Post town, Loughborough. Pop., 393. Houses, 81. The chapelry	Imperial
  GRACEDIEU		Charnwood Forest canal, 5 miles ENE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Real property, £1, 906. Pop., 32. An August	Imperial
  Leicestershire		Charnwood range. Charnwood Forest, in the NW., is now nearly destitute of trees. The principal rivers are tributaries of the Trent	Bartholomew
  LEICESTERSHIRE, or LEICESTER		Charnwood forest, is the highest elevation, and has an altitude of 853 feet above sea-level. Beacon and other hills	Imperial
  LOUGHBOROUGH		Charnwood forest, lying to the SW; and it has long been a seat of considerable manufacture; but it latterly has somewhat	Imperial
  NEWTOWN-LINFORD		Charnwood forest, 3 miles N by E of Kirby-Muxloe r. station, and 5½ N W of Leicester; and has a postal	Imperial
  OAKS		Charnwood-forest, 2 miles N E of Bardon-Hill r. station, and 6 S W of Loughborough. It was constituted	Imperial
  Oaks, The, in Charnwood		Oaks, The, in Charnwood , eccl. dist., Barrow upon Soar, Newtown-Linford, Sheepshed, and Whitwick pars., Leicestershire, pop. 627.	Bartholomew
  SALT WAY		have gone thence by Birmingham, Stretton, Charnwood Forest, Sedgehill, Warmby, Saltby, Saltersford, Paunston, Stainsfield, and other places, to the coast.	Imperial
  SHEEPSHED		Charnwood forest, 4½ miles W of Loughborough r. station; and has a post-office‡ under Loughborough, and an old cross	Imperial
  WHITWICK		Charnwood forest.—The parish contains also Swannington and Thringstone townships; includes parts of Coalville and Oaks chapelries; and comprises	Imperial
  WOODHOUSE-EAVES		Charnwood forest; it was constituted in 1844; and it has a post-office under Loughborough. Pop. in 1861, 1,163. Houses	Imperial

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