We could not match "PANGBOURNE" 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 15 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "PANGBOURNE" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• 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 "PANGBOURNE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASHAMPSTEAD	Berkshire	Pangbourne r. station, and 10½ W by N of Reading. It has a post office under Reading. Acres, 2,057. Real	Imperial
  BASILDEN, or Basildon	Berkshire	Pangbourne, under Reading. Acres, 3,083. Real property, £4,875. Pop., 712. Houses, 148. The property is divided among	Imperial
  BRADFIELD	Berkshire	Pangbourn, Whitchurch, and Maple-Durham, the two last electorally in Oxford. Acres, 62,166. Poor-rates in 1866, £11,902. Pop. in 1861, 15,771. Houses	Imperial
  Lower Basildon	Berkshire	Lower Basildon , hamlet, Basildon par., Berks, 1½ mile NW. of Pangbourne sta.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  MAPLE-DURHAM	Oxfordshire	Pangbourne r. station, and 3½ NW by W of Reading; and has a pos tal letter-box under Reading	Imperial
  Panfield	Essex	Hampstead Norris, and flows 13 miles S., E., and N. to the Thames at Pangbourn; is noted for its trout.	Bartholomew
  Pangbourn	Berkshire	Pangbourn , par. and vil. with ry. sta., Berks - par., 1940 ac., pop. 737; vil., on river Pang, 5½ miles	Bartholomew
  PANGBOURN	Berkshire	PANGBOURN , a village and a parish in Brad field district, Berks. The village stands on the river Pangnear its influx	Imperial
  PANG (The)	Berkshire	westward, and northward, past Frilsham, Bucklebury, Brad field, and Tidmarsh, to the Thames at Pangbourn. It is noted for its trout.	Imperial
  PURLEY	Berkshire	Pangbourn r. station, and 3½ W N W of Reading; and has a post-office under Reading. The parish	Imperial
  SULHAM	Berkshire	Pangbourn r. station, and 4½ W by N of Reading. It has a post-office under Reading. Acres, 6-95. Real	Imperial
  TIDMARSH	Berkshire	Pangbourn r. station. Post town, Pangbourn, under Reading. Acres, 779. Real property, £1,471. Pop., 179. Houses, 33. The manor	Imperial
  Whitchurch	Berkshire Oxfordshire	Oxford - par., 2358 ac., pop. 902; vil., on river Thames, 6 miles NW. of Beading; P.O.; a bridge here crosses the Thames to Pangbourn.	Bartholomew
  WHITCHURCH	Berkshire Oxfordshire	Pangbourn r. station, and 6 miles WNW of Reading. It has a post-office under Reading. Acres, 2,070. Real	Imperial
  YATTENDON	Berkshire	Pangbourne r. station. It once had a weekly market, and now has a post-office under Newbury, and a fair	Imperial

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



• 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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