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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 "COVINGTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Biggar	Lanarkshire	Covington, Culter, Dolphinton, Dunsyre, Liberton, Skirling, Symington, Walston, and Wandel. Pop. (1871) 6537, (1881) 6230, of whom 1928, according to a Parliamentary	Groome
  Carmichael	Lanarkshire	Covington, S by Wiston, SW by Douglas, and NW by Lesmahagow and Lanark. Its greatest length, from E by N to W by S, is 5 3 / 8 miles	Groome
  Clyde	Lanarkshire	Covington, and Pettinain; along its right, of Crawford, Lamington-Wandel, Culter, Biggar. and Liberton. Next it winds west-by-southward	Groome
  Covington	Huntingdonshire	Covington , par., W. border of Huntingdonshire, 3½ miles NW. of Kimbolton, 1290 ac., pop. 149; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Covington	Lanarkshire	Covington barony, is now a fine ruin; and Covington Mill was the place where that famous martyr of the Covenant	Groome
  COVINGTON	Huntingdonshire	COVINGTON , a parish in the district of Thrapston and county of Huntingdon; at the boundary with Beds and Northampton, 3½ miles	Imperial
  Covington and Thankerton	Lanarkshire	Covington and Thankerton , united par., E. Lanarkshire, 5114 ac., pop. 444; contains the vils. of Covington and Thankerton -- Thankerton, with	Bartholomew
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Covington, Graffham, Great Catworth, Abbots-Hemingford, Keystone, Little Stukeley, Molesworth, and Woolley; the vicarages of Brampton, Easton, Ellington, Fenstanton, Godmanchester	Imperial
  Lanark	Lanarkshire	Covington Mill, lies buried in the S aisle; and in the churchyard is the grave of `William Henri, who suffered	Groome
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	Covington. In this district the volcanic rocks are inclined to the S, but they reappear at Lamington with a N dip. On the slopes	Groome
  Libberton	Lanarkshire	Covington, and W by Covington and Pettinain. Its utmost length, from N to S, is 5 1 / 8 miles; its breadth	Groome
  Pettinain	Lanarkshire	Covington, SW by Carmichael, and W by Lanark. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 3½ miles; its utmost	Groome
  Symington	Lanarkshire	Covington, N by Libberton and Biggar, E by Culter, SE by Lamington, and SW by Wiston. Its utmost length, from	Groome
  Thankerton	Lanarkshire	Thankerton , vil. with ry. sta., Covington and Thankerton par., Lanarkshire, on river Clyde, 5 miles S. of Carstairs Junction; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Tingwall	Shetland	Covington parishes, Lanarkshire, flanking the left side of a detour of the river Clyde, and culminating 7¼ miles SE of Lanark	Groome
  Wiston and Roberton	Lanarkshire	Covington, and Symington parishes. The rocks are variously eruptive, Silurian, Devonian, and carboniferous. The eruptive rocks occur partly in dikes	Groome

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