We could not match "COLEY" 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 13 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 "COLEY" (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 "COLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BRAMPTON-BIERLOW	Yorkshire	Coley-Lane, Cartwood, Hoober, New-Mill, and West Melton, and part of the hamlet of Elsecar, which has a post	Imperial
  Coley	Yorkshire	Coley , eccl. dist. (St John), Halifax par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, pop. 3878.	Bartholomew
  COLEY	Yorkshire	COLEY , a chapelry in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles NE of Halifax. Post town, Halifax. Pop., 8, 151. The property	Imperial
  Coley Lane	Yorkshire	Coley Lane , hamlet, Wath-upon-Dearne par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5½ miles N. of Rotherham.	Bartholomew
  COLEY-LANE	Yorkshire	COLEY-LANE , a hamlet in Brampton-Bierlow township, Wath-upon-Dearne parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 5½ miles N of Rotherham	Imperial
  Coley Park	Berkshire	Coley Park , seat, 1 mile SW. of Reading, Berks.	Bartholomew
  COLEYS	Berkshire	Coley-Cross, on his visit to the city; and Charles I. resided several days at Coley House, during the civil	Imperial
  HALIFAX	Yorkshire	Coley, Cross Stone, Elland, Greetland, Haley Hill, Harley Wood, Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Illingworth, Lightcliffe, Luddenden, Mount Pellon, Mytholmroyd, Queenshead, Rastrick	Imperial
  HARPTREE (EAST)	Somerset	Coley, and comprises 2,770 acres. Real property, £4,305; of which £200 are in mines. Pop., 657. Houses	Imperial
  HINTON-BLEWETT	Somerset	Coley, and Shortwood; and its posttown is Temple Cloud, under Bristol. Acres, 1, 102. Real property, £2, 548. Pop., 302. Houses	Imperial
  HIPPERHOLME	Yorkshire	Coley, with their places of worship, their schools, and their charities. Two chief seats are Crow Nest and Cliffe Hill	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	Coley, the astrologer, who was born in 1633; and Triplett, the scholar, who died in 1670. Oxford gives the title	Imperial
  READING	Berkshire	Coley-street and Friar-street; and, at the census of 1861, they had 88 and 81 inmates. The hundred excludes	Imperial

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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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