We could not match "HANWELL" 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 16 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 "HANWELL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BANBURY		Hanwell, and great part of the parish of Cropredy, electorally in Oxfordshire,-the parishes of Upper Boddington, Lower Boddington, and Aston	Imperial
  BRENTFORD		Hanwell parish, St. George-Old Brentford, in Ealing parish, and St. Paul-Old Brentford, also in Ealing. Pop. of St. L., 11,995; of St. G., 2,591; of St. P., 4,409. The livings	Imperial
  BRENT (The)		Middlesex. It rises near Barnet; and runs 16 miles south-south-westward. past Handon and Hanwell, to the Thames at Brentford.	Imperial
  GREENFORD (GREAT)		Hanwell r. station, and 4 NW by N of Brent ford; was known to the Saxons as Greneforde; is a long	Imperial
  Hanwell		Hanwell , par., Oxfordshire, 2½ m. NW. of Banbury, 1271 ac., pop. 253.	Bartholomew
  Hanwell		township, 1067 ac., pop. 5178; P.O., T.O.; in vicinity is the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, known as Hanwell Asylum; here also is the seat of Hanwell Park .	Bartholomew
  HANWELL		Hanwell Castle was called by Leland ' ' the pleasant and gallant house of Hanwell;'' was twice visited, in the time of Sir Anthony	Imperial
  HANWELL		HANWELL , a village and a parish in Brentford district, Middlesex. The village stands on the river Brent, adjacent to the Great	Imperial
  LONDON		Hanwell; the vicarages of New Brentford, Chiswick, Ealing, Heston, Isleworth, and Northolt; the p. curacies of Turnham-green, St. Mary	Imperial
  MIDDLESEX		Hanwell, Harefield, Heston, Kempton, Littleton, Paradise House, Shepperton, Stanmore Hall, Stanmore Grove, Swakeleys, Teddington House, Trent Park, Twickenham Park, Twyford	Imperial
  NORTHOLT, or Northall		Hanwell r. station, and 4¾ E of Uxbridge; was known, at Domesday, as Northala; and has a post-office	Imperial
  NORWOOD		Hanwell, the Southall Park, and Dr. Horsburgh's lunatic asylums; and has a head post-office, ‡ of Southall, and a receiving	Imperial
  Osterley		Osterley , ry. sta., Hanwell par., Middlesex, 1 mile NE. of Hounslow; in vicinity is Osterley Park, seat of the Earl of Jersey.	Bartholomew
  OSTERLEY HOUSE		Hanwell parish, Middlesex; 2 miles W N W of Brentford. The estate belonged to Sheen priory; went to Sir T. Gresham	Imperial
  Wharncliffe Viaduct		Wharncliffe Viaduct , ry. viaduct across the r. Brent, Middlesex, at Hanwell; is 896 ft. long and 70 high.	Bartholomew
  WHARNCLIFFE VIADUCT		Great Western railway, at Hanwell, Middlesex. It is 896 feet long and 70 feet high, and cost £40,000.	Imperial

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• 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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