We could not match "ELTHAM" 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 18 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 "ELTHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BLACKHEATH	Kent	parishes of Lee, Lewisham, Charlton, and Eltham. Acres, 18,206. Pop. in 1851, 121,753; in 1861, 187,696. Houses, 26,559.	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Eltham, Plumstead, Deptford-St. Nicholas, part of Deptford-St. Paul, and the city and deanery of Rochester. It includes likewise	Imperial
  CORNWALL	Cornwall	Eltham; and that of Duke of Cornwall was created for the Black Prince, and has ever since belonged to the eldest	Imperial
  Eltham	Kent	Eltham , par. and township with ry. sta., Kent -- 4124 ac., pop. 5827; township (in parl. bor. of Woolwich), 3782 ac., pop. 5048; P.O., T.O.; there	Bartholomew
  ELTHAM	Kent	ELTHAM , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Lewisham district, Kent. The village stands near the Lee and Dartford	Imperial
  GRAMPOUND	Cornwall	Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Edward III.; was made a borough, after the Earl's death, by Edward III.; sent	Imperial
  GREENWICH	Kent	Eltham, and Nottingham. The police office is in the R. division of police, and attended by two magistrates. The theatre	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	Eltham Palace, Cobham, the Moat, Penshurst, Chilham, Knole, Sore-Place, Battle Hall, Boughton-Place, and East Sutton Place. Remains exist	Imperial
  KIDBROOKE	Kent	Eltham; and it has a post office under Greenwich, London SE. It was once a parish; but it lost its church	Imperial
  Lesmahagow	Lanarkshire	Eltham, brother of Edward III., and commander of part of the English forces, burned it to the ground as he passed	Groome
  LEWISHAM	Kent	Eltham, conterminate with Eltham parish; and the sub-district of Plumstead, containing the parishes of Plumstead and Charlton-next-Woolwich	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Eltham, Lee, Lewisham, part of St. Sepulchre, and all Battersea except Penge hamlet. There are likewise numerous liberties, extra-parochial	Imperial
  Mottingham	Kent	Mottingham , township and vil., Eltham par., Kent, 3 miles S. of Woolwich, 642 ac., pop. 779; P.O.	Bartholomew
  MOTTINGHAM	Kent	Eltham parish, Kent; 3¼ miles S of Woolwich. It has a wall letter-box under Eltham, London SE. Acres	Imperial
  Pope Street	Kent	Pope Street , 2 miles SE. of Eltham, Kent.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  SHOOTERS-HILL	Kent	Eltham parish, Kent. The eminence rises 1 mile S of Woolwich; is an insulated mass of London clay, 446 feet	Imperial
  SIDCUP	Kent	Eltham; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a station on the railway, and a R. police station. The chapelry	Imperial
  Woolwich	Kent	Eltham and the par. of Plumstead), 8296 ac., pop. 74,963; 3 Banks, 4 newspapers. The chief feature of Woolwich	Bartholomew

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