We could not match "PURFLEET" 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 14 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 "PURFLEET" (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 "PURFLEET":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aveley	Essex	from Purfleet sta. and 7 miles SE. of Romford, 2951 ac. and 128 water and foreshore, pop. 972; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  AVELEY	Essex	Purfleet station of the Tilbury railway, near the Thames, 7 miles SE of Romford. It has a post office under	Imperial
  CHAFFORD	Essex	below Purfleet; extends 12½ miles northward; and contains fourteen parishes. Acres, 35,712. Pop., 16,001. Houses, 2,769.	Imperial
  ESSEX	Essex	Purfleet, is protected from further injury by strong embankments. The tracts inland, to the centre and further west, are champaign	Imperial
  LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY	Essex	Purfleet; passes through Grays; and proceeds to West Tilbury and Tilbury Fort, and thence to Southend. The company was originally	Imperial
  LYNN, KINGS-LYNN, or LYNN-REGIS	Norfolk	Purfleet-quay, was erected in 1683; is in a mixed Greek style, with curious pyramidal roof, surmounted by a small	Imperial
  Purfleet	Essex	Purfleet , vil. with ry. sta. and small harbour, West Thurrock par., Essex, 7 miles NW. of Tilbury sta. and 13 miles	Bartholomew
  PURFLEET	Kent	PURFLEET , a hamlet in West Thurrock parish, Kent; on the river Thames, at the mouth of Marditch rivulet, and on the London	Imperial
  Rands, The	Kent	Rands, The , reach of river Thames, between Erith and Purfleet; is U mile long.	Bartholomew
  RANDS (The)		Purfleet. It extends east-south-eastward; is1½ mile long; and has, in its middle, Randhill shoal, ¾of a mile	Imperial
  THAMES (The)	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Essex Gloucestershire Kent Middlesex	Purfleet, the Medway at Sheerness, the Swale at Whitstable, and the Crouch at Foulness Point. The river has a total	Imperial
  Thurrock, West	Essex	Thames, 1½ mile W. of Grays sta., 3000 ac. and 705 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 1926; P.O.; contains Purfleet.	Bartholomew
  THURROCK (West)	Essex	Purfleet; and it has a post-office under Romford. Acres, 3,607; of which 700 are water. Real property, £6,131. Pop. in 1851, 835; in 1861, 1,039. Houses	Imperial
  WENNINGTON	Essex	Purfleet r. stations, and 7 miles SSE of Romford. It has a post-office under Romford. Acres, 1,570; of which	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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.