We could not match "SOUTHALL" 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 "SOUTHALL" (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 "SOUTHALL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CRANFORD	Middlesex	mile SW of Southall r. station, and 2½ NW of Hounslow. It has a post office under Hounslow, London, W.	Imperial
  GREAT WESTERN AND BRENTFORD RAILWAY	Middlesex	Southall to Brentford. It was authorized in 1855; is og the broad gange, agd 4½ miles logg; agd has coggexiog	Imperial
  HAYES, or HEESE	Middlesex	Southall. The manor belonged, from 830, to the archbishops of Canterbury; had a manor-house, which was often a residence	Imperial
  HESTON	Middlesex	Southall r. station, and 1½ N by W of Hounslow; is irregularly built, yet contains good houses and villas	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Southall-green. The deanery of Enfield contains the rectories of Finchley, Friern-Barnet, and Hornsey; the vicarages of Edmonton, Enfield	Imperial
  MIDDLESEX	Middlesex	Southall, Fulham Palace, Gunnersbury, Camden Hill, Fulwell Lodge, Cullands Grove, Hillingdon, Edmonton House, Isleworth House, Mill Hill, Pinner Grove, Stanwell	Imperial
  NORTHOLT, or Northall	Middlesex	Southall. The parish contains also the hamlets of West-End and Wood-End. Acres, 2, 193. Real property, £4, 988; of which	Imperial
  Norwood	Middlesex	Southall), 2461 ac., pop. 6681; eccl. dist., pop. 2897; vil., 1½ mile SE. of Southall sta. and 3 miles	Bartholomew
  NORWOOD	Middlesex	Southall, and Southall-Green, and part of the hamlet of North Hyde; includes the Hanwell, the Southall Park, and Dr. Horsburgh	Imperial
  Norwood Green	Middlesex	Norwood Green , Hayes par., Middlesex, 1½ mile SE. of Southall; P.O. See NORWOOD.	Bartholomew
  Sipson	Middlesex	Sipson , hamlet, 4 m. SW. of Southall sta., Middlesex.	Bartholomew
  Southall	Middlesex	London, pop. 3784; P.O., T.O., and P.O. at Southall Green , 1 Bank. Market-day, Wednesday . Southall has trade in cattle.	Bartholomew
  SOUTHALL	Middlesex	SOUTHALL , a chapelry, with a village, in Hayes parish, Middlesex; on the Great Western railway, 3½ miles NW of Brentwood	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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