We could not match "LIFTON" 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 19 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 "LIFTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ashwater	Devon	Ashwater , par. and vil., S.Devon, 2m.from Lifton ry. sta. and 6 m. SE. of Holsworthy, 8587 ac., pop. 849; P.O.	Bartholomew
  CLAWTON	Devon	Lifton r. station; and has a post office under Holsworthy, North Devon. The parish comprises 5, 358 acres. Real property	Imperial
  DEVONSHIRE, or Devon	Devon	Lifton, Ottery-St. Mary, Plympton, Roborough, Stanborough, Tavistock, Teignbridge, and Wonford. It was further cut for parliamentary representation, by the reform	Imperial
  DUNTERTON	Devon	Lifton r. station. It contains the hamlet of Eastacott; and its post town is Milton-Abbot, under Tavistock. Acres, 1, 161. Real	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Lifton, Stowford, Sydenham-Damerell, and Virginstow; the vicarages of Lamerton, Marystow, Milton-Abbot, and Tavistock; and the p. curacies of Brent	Imperial
  HALWELL	Devon	Lifton r. station. Post town, Holsworthy, North Devon. Acres, 3, 426. Real property, £1, 153. Pop., 257. Houses, 47. The property	Imperial
  HAYTOR	Devon	Lifton, Stanborough, and Coleridge. It contains Abbots-Kerswell parish and twenty-one other parishes. Acres, 62,913. Pop. in 1851, 35,196; in 1861, 41,997. Houses	Imperial
  HOLLACOMBE	Devon	Lifton r. station. Post town, Holsworthy, North Devon. Acres, 1, 218. Real property, £603. Pop., 87. Houses, 20. The property	Imperial
  KELLY	Devon	Lifton r. station, and 6 SE by E of Launceston. Post town, Tavistock. Acres, 1, 721. Real property, £2, 414. Pop., 217. Houses	Imperial
  Lid	Devon	Lid , river, Devon, flows to the Tamar near Lifton.	Bartholomew
  LID, or LYD (THE)	Devon	river of the W of Devon; rising at Branscombe-Loaf in Dartmoor, and running about 13½ miles to the Tamar at Lifton.	Imperial
  Lifton	Devon	Lifton , hundred, Devon, 133,300 ac., pop. 13,942; contains 21 pars, and part of another.	Bartholomew
  Lifton	Devon	Lifton .-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., Devon, in valley of river Lid, near its confluence with the Tamar, 4 miles	Bartholomew
  LIFTON	Devon	LIFTON , a village, a parish, a district-district, and a hundred, in Devon. The village stands in the valley of the river	Imperial
  LUFFINCOTT	Cornwall	Lifton r. station. Post town, Launceston. Acres, 971. Real property, £667. Pop., 71. Houses, 13. The property is divided	Imperial
  PANCRASWEEK	Devon	Lifton r. station; and is sometimes called Week-Pancrassa, or Week, St. Pancras. The parish contains also the hamlets of Dexbeer	Imperial
  PYWORTHY	Devon	Lifton r. station. The parish contains also the hamlets of Derriton and Killatree; and its post town is Holsworthy, North	Imperial
  TAVISTOCK	Devon	Lifton, and Buckland-Monachorum sub-districts; and comprises 158,567 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £12,372. Pop. in 1851, 32,386; in 1861, 35,265. Houses	Imperial
  VIRGINSTOW	Devon	Lifton r. station, and 6½ NNE of Launceston. Post town, Launceston. Acres, 1,274. Real property, £1,004. Pop., 141. Houses	Imperial

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