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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  HORNDON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	THURROCK UD (Local Government District)

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



• 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 "HORNDON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BILLERICAY	Essex	Horndon, West Horndon, Childerditch, Little Warley, Ingrave, South Weald, and Shenfield; the subdistrict of Great Burstead, containing the parishes of Great	Imperial
  Herongate	Essex	Herongate , hamlet, East Horndon and Ingrave pars., S. Essex, 3½ miles SE. of Brentwood; P.O.	Bartholomew
  HERONGATE	Essex	Horndon and Ingrave parishes, Essex; 3½ miles SE of Brentwood. It has a post office under Brentwood. Two barns	Imperial
  Horndon	Devon	Horndon , vil., St Mary Tavy par., S. Devon, on W. side of Dartmoor.	Bartholomew
  HORNDON	Devon	HORNDON , a village in Tavy-St. Mary parish, Devon; on the W side of Dartmoor.	Imperial
  Horndon, East	Essex	Horndon, East , par. and vil., S. Essex, 4 miles SW. of Billericay, 1529 ac., pop. 504.	Bartholomew
  HORNDON (EAST), or EAST THORNDON	Essex	HORNDON (EAST) , or EAST THORNDON, a parish in Billericay district, Essex; 3 miles SSE of Brentwood r. station, and 4 SW of Billericay	Imperial
  Horndon-on-the-Hill	Essex	Horndon-on-the-Hill , par. and vil., S. Essex, 2 miles NE. of Orsett, 2649 ac., pop. 592; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  HORNDON-ON-THE-HILL	Essex	HORNDON-ON-THE-HILL , a village and a parish in Orsett district, Essex. The village stands on a hill, 1¼ mile	Imperial
  Horndon, West	Essex	Horndon, West , par., S. Essex, 2 miles SE. of Brentwood ry. sta., 1396 ac., pop. 75.	Bartholomew
  HORNDON (WEST), or WEST THORNDON	Essex	HORNDON (WEST) , or WEST THORNDON, a parish in Billericay district, Essex; 2 miles SE of Brentwood r. station. Post town	Imperial
  INGRAVE	Essex	Horndon, in the diocese of Rochester. The church was built in 1734; is a red brick structure, with a tower	Imperial
  MARYTAVY, or TAVY-ST. MARY	Devon	Horndon, LaneHead, and Black-Down. Acres, 4,180. Real property, £3,284; of which £1,161 are in mines	Imperial
  ORSETT	Essex	Horndon-on-the-Hill, Langdon, Fobbing, Corringham, Stanford-le-Hope, Mucking, East Tilbury, West Tilbury, and Chadwell, St. Mary. Acres	Imperial
  Thorndon Hall	Essex	Thorndon Hall , seat of Lord Petre, West Horndon par., Essex, 2 miles SE. of Brentwood.	Bartholomew
  VANGE	Essex	Horndon-on-the-Hill, under Romford. Acres, 2,250; of which 550 are water. Real property, £1,490. Pop., 160. Houses	Imperial

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