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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 "LAVENHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALPHETON	Suffolk	Lavenham under Sudbury. Acres, 1,202. Real property, £1,844. Pop., 298. Houses, 69. The property is not much	Imperial
  BRENT-ELEIGH, or Brent-Ely	Suffolk	Lavenham, under Sudbury. Acres, 1,617. Real property, £2,519. Pop., 228. Houses, 60. The property is divided among	Imperial
  BRET, or Breton (The)	Suffolk	Combust; and runs 17 miles south-southeastward, past Lavenham and Hadleigh, to the Stour, 3¾ miles E of Nayland.	Imperial
  BURY-ST. EDMUNDS	Suffolk	Lavenham, Sudbury, and the adjacent country. The Duke of Northumberland, on proclaiming Lady Jane Grey to be successor of Edward	Imperial
  Chadacre Hall	Suffolk	Chadacre Hall , 4 m. NW. of Lavenham, W. Suffolk.	Bartholomew
  COSFORD	Suffolk	Lavenham, containing the parishes of Lavenham, Brent-Eleigh, Monks-Eleigh, Milden, Chelsworth, Nedging., Cockfield, Thorpe-Morieux, Brettenham, Wattisham, Hitcham, Bildeston	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Lavenham, Lawsall-All Saints, Layham, Long Melford, Milden, Naughton, Nedging, Newton-by-Sudbury, Polstead, Preston, Semere, Shimplingthorne, Somerton, Stanstead, Thorpe	Imperial
  Hartest	Suffolk	Hartest , par. and vil., W. Suffolk, 6 miles NW. of Lavenham, 1964 ac., pop. 616; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LANHAM	Suffolk	LANHAM . See LAVENHAM.	Imperial
  Lavenham	Suffolk	Lavenham , par. and vil. with ry. sta., Suffolk, in valley of river Brett, 5 m. NE. of Melford sta. and 10 m. SE. of Bury	Bartholomew
  LAVENHAM	Suffolk	LAVENHAM , a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Cosford district, Suffolk. The town stands in the valley	Imperial
  LAWSHALL	Suffolk	Lavenham r. station, and 6½ S by E of Bury-ST. Edmunds. It has two post offices, under Bury	Imperial
  MILDEN	Suffolk	Lavenham r. station, and 5½ NW of Hadleigh. Post town, Monks-Eleigh, under Ipswich. Acres, 1,339. Real property	Imperial
  Preston	Suffolk	Preston , par. and vil., Suffolk, on river Brett, 2 miles W. of Lavenham, 1931 ac., pop. 300.	Bartholomew
  PRESTON	Suffolk	Lavenham r.station. Post-town, Bildeston, under Ipswich. Acres, 1, 931. Real property, £2, 880. Pop., 348. Houses, 73. The property	Imperial
  Shimpling (or Shimplingthorne)	Suffolk	Shimpling (or Shimplingthorne ), par. and vil., Suffolk - par., 2698 ac., pop. 491; vil., 4 miles NW. of Lavenham; P.O.	Bartholomew
  SHIMPLING, or Shimplingthorne	Suffolk	Lavenham r. station. It has a post-office under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 2,698. Real property, £3,640. Pop., 500. Houses	Imperial
  Thorpe Morieux	Suffolk	par.and vil., Suffolk, 3 miles NE. of Lavenham and 9 miles SE. of Bury St Edmunds, 2457 ac., pop. 416; P.O.	Bartholomew
  THORPE-MORIEUX	Suffolk	Lavenham r. station. Post town, Bildestone, under Ipswich. Acres, 2,457. Real property, £3,570. Pop., 447. Houses, 98. The manor	Imperial
  WELNETHAM	Suffolk	WELNETHAM , a r. station in Suffolk; on the Bury and Lavenham railway, 3¾ miles SSE of Bury-St-Edmunds.	Imperial

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