We could not match "SLAPTON" 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 13 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 "SLAPTON" (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 "SLAPTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALLINGTON (East)	Devon	Slapton harriers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £510.* Patron, W. B. Fortescue, Esq. The church	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Slapton, Chivelstone, and Sherford. The archdeaconry of Barnstaple comprises the dean-eries of Barnstaple, Chulmleigh, Hartland, Holsworthy, Shirwell, South Molton	Imperial
  GARBYTHORPE	Nottinghamshire	GARBYTHORPE , a hamlet in Clifton-with-Slapton parish, Notts; 3¼ miles SW of Nottingham. Pop., 49.	Imperial
  HORTON	Buckinghamshire	Slapton parishes, Bucks; near the Northwestern railway and the Grand Junction canal, 2½ miles NW of IvinghoeReal property, with	Imperial
  KINGSBRIDGE	Devon	Slapton; the sub-district of Stokenham, containing the parishes of Stokenham, Sherford, Charleton, South Pool, Chivelston, and. East Portlemouth; and the sub-district	Imperial
  LEIGHTON-BUZZARD	Bedfordshire	Slapton, and Eaton-Bray,-the two former electorally in Bucks. Acres, 38,015. Poor rates, in 1863, £6,737. Pop. in 1851,17,142; in 1861,17,648. Houses	Imperial
  Slapton	Devon	Slapton , coast par. and vil., Devon - par., 3430 ac. (110 water), pop. 618; vil., 6 miles SW. of Dartmouth; P.O.; 1 mile	Bartholomew
  Slapton	Northamptonshire	Slapton , par. and vil., Northamptonshire, 3½ miles SW. of Towcester, 930 ac., pop. 166.	Bartholomew
  Slapton	Buckinghamshire	Slapton .-- par. and vil., Bucks, in E. of co., 3 miles S. of Leighton Buzzard, 1211 ac., pop. 265.	Bartholomew
  SLAPTON	Buckinghamshire	SLAPTON , a parish, with a village, in the district of Leighton-Buzzard and county of Buckingham; 2 miles NE by N of Cheddington	Imperial
  SLAPTON	Northamptonshire	SLAPTON , a parish, with a village, in Towcester district, Northampton; 3¾ miles WSW of Towcester, and 7½ SW of Blisworth	Imperial
  SLAPTON	Devon	SLAPTON , a parish, with a village, in Kingsbridge district, Devon; on the coast, 5½ miles SSW of Dartmouth r. station	Imperial
  TOVE, or Tow (The)	Northamptonshire	Slapton, and Towcester, to the neighbourhood of Alderton; and going thence about 5½ miles, south-south-eastward, chiefly along	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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