We could not match "SLAIDBURN" 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 16 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 "SLAIDBURN" (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 "SLAIDBURN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Battrix		Battrix , hamlet, Slaidburn par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 11 miles SW. of Settle.	Bartholomew
  BATTRIX		BATTRIX a hamlet in Bowland-Forest township, Slaidburn parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 11 miles SW of Settle.	Imperial
  BOWLAND-FOREST		Slaidburn, and part of the parish of Whalley; and belonged to the honour of Clitheroe. It contained wild deer so late	Imperial
  Bowland Forest, High		Slaidburn par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Hodder, 10 miles NW. of Clitheroe, 19,750 ac., pop. 231.	Bartholomew
  BOWLAND-FOREST (High)		Slaidburn parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Hodder, 10 miles NW of Clitheroe. It includes the hamlets of Dunsap	Imperial
  CLITHEROE		Slaidburn, containing Slaidburn parish and the Bowland forest part of Whalley, both in Yorkshire; and the sub-district of Gisburn	Imperial
  Dalehead		Slaidburn par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire -- dist., pop. 276; hamlet, 6 m. NW. of Chatburn sta.; P.O., called Dale	Bartholomew
  DALE-HEAD		Slaidburn, under Blackburn. Statistics, with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Slaidburn, in the diocese	Imperial
  Easington		township, Slaidburn par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Hodder, 6 miles NW. of Clitheroe, 9199 ac., pop. 299.	Bartholomew
  EASINGTON		Slaidburn parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Hodder, near the boundary with Lancashire, 6½ miles N by W of Clitheroe	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE		Slaidburn parishes, Sawley extra-parochial tract, and parts of Gisburn, Mitton, and Whalley parishes from W. R. Yorkshire; comprises 1,319,391 acres	Imperial
  Newton		Slaidburn par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Hodder, 64 miles NW. of Clitheroe, 5869 ac., pop. 331; P.O., called	Bartholomew
  NEWTON		Slaidburn parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Hodder, adjacent to Lancashire, 6½ miles N by W of Clitheroe	Imperial
  Newton in Bowland		Newton in Bowland , Slaidburn par., West-Riding Yorkshire, 6½ m. NW. of Clitheroe; P.O. See NEWTON.	Bartholomew
  Slaidburn		Slaidburn , par., township, and vil., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - par., 39,986 ac., pop. 1358; township, 5182 ac., pop. 497; vil., on right	Bartholomew
  SLAIDBURN		SLAIDBURN , a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Clitheroe and W. R. Yorkshire	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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