We could not match "SOMERSHAM" 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 "SOMERSHAM" (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 "SOMERSHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BLUNTISHAM	Huntingdonshire	Somersham r. station, and 4½ NE of St. Ives; and has a post office under St. Ives. Real property	Imperial
  BOSMERE	Suffolk	Somersham, Little Blakenham, Bramford, and Flowton; and the subdistrict of Coddenham, containing the parishes of Coddenham, Gosbeck, Hemingstone, Ash-Bocking	Imperial
  BROUGHTON	Huntingdonshire	Somersham r. station, and 5 NE of Huntingdon. Post Town, Old Hurst, under Huntingdon. Acres, 2,950. Real property, £2,707. Pop., 376. Houses	Imperial
  COLNE	Huntingdonshire	Somersham r. station, and 5¼ NE of St. Ives. Post town, Somersham, under St. Ives. Acres, 2, 011. Real	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Somersham, Warboys, and Wistow; and the p. curacies of Earith, Bury, Little Raveley, Oldhurst, Pidley, Ramsey, Ramsey-St. Mary, St. Ives	Imperial
  HURST (Old)	Huntingdonshire	Somersham r. station, and 4 NNW of St. Ives. It has a post office under Huntingdon. Acres, 1, 350. Real	Imperial
  IVES (ST.)	Huntingdonshire	Somersham, containing the parishes of Somersham, Colne, Bluntisham, Woodhurst, and Pidley-cum-Fenton; and the Cambridgeshire sub-district of Swavesey	Imperial
  Lower Somersham	Suffolk	Lower Somersham , vil., Somersham par., Suffolk, 3½ miles NE. of Hadleigh sta.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  PIDLEY-CUM-FENTON	Huntingdonshire	Somersham r. station and 5 N N E of St. Ives. Post-town, Woodhurst, under Huntingdon. Acres, 3, 739. Real	Imperial
  Somersham	Suffolk	Somersham , par., Suffolk, 1027 ac., pop. 403; contains Lower Somersham , vil., 3½ miles NE. of Hadleigh; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Somersham	Huntingdonshire	Somersham .-- market town and par. with ry. sta., Huntingdonshire, 5½ miles NE. of St Ives, 4121 ac., pop. 1409; P.O., T.O.. Market	Bartholomew
  SOMERSHAM	Suffolk	SOMERSHAM , a parish, with a village, in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 3¾ miles NE by N of Hadleigh r. station	Imperial
  SOMERSHAM		SOMERSHAM , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in St. Ives district, Hunts. The village stands adjacent to the Cambridge	Imperial

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• 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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