We could not match "SPEKE" 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 20 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  SPEKE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	LIVERPOOL CB/MB (Local Government District)

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• 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 "SPEKE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Brampford Speke	Devon	Brampford Speke , par. and vil., N. Devon, on river Exe, 4 miles N. of Exeter, 1642 ac., pop. 485; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BRAMPFORD-SPEKE	Devon	SPEKE , a village and a parish in St. Thomas district, Devon. The village stands on the river Exe, near the Bristol	Imperial
  CHILDWALL	Lancashire	Speke, Hale, Halewood, Little Woolton, and Much Woolton; extends from the suburbs of Liverpool, 9 miles up the Mersey; and contains	Imperial
  COWLEY, or Cowley-Bridge	Devon	Speke parish, Devon; near the confluence of the river Exe and Creedy, 2 miles N of Exeter. It has a post	Imperial
  CURRY-RIVELL	Somerset	Speke, Esq. The church is early English; consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower; has beautiful windows; and contains	Imperial
  DOWLISH-WAKE, or East Dowlish	Somerset	Bath and Wells. Value, £356. Patron, W. Speke, Esq. The church was rebuilt in a handsome manner, in 1862.	Imperial
  ELTHAM	Kent	Speke; passed, under Edward VI., to Sir John Gates; was held, under the Crown, in the time of Elizabeth, by William	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Speke, effigies; Sir Richard Stapleton, effigies; Bishop Leofric, canopy of the time of Henry V., with imagery; Sir J. Gilbert	Imperial
  HALE	Lancashire	here in 1623.—The sub-district contains the townships of Hale, Speke, and Halewood. Acres, 13, 042. Pop., 2, 424. Houses, 430.	Imperial
  JORDANS	Somerset	JORDANS , a seat of the Spekes in Somerset; 2 miles NW of Ilminster.	Imperial
  KENSINGTON	Middlesex	Speke was erected near them in 1866. Beautiful wrought-iron gates are at the SE entrance of the gardens, from	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	Speke Hall, Springhill, Springfield, Stamford House, Stand, Stand Hill, Standen Hall, Standish Hall, Stansfield Hall, Stockbridge, Stone House, Storr's Hall	Imperial
  MAIDENHEAD	Berkshire	Speke; but it really contains little matter of any note. Its name, at some early period, was South Allington or Sudlington	Imperial
  Nairn	Nairnshire	Speke in his journey to the sources of the Nile in 1863, and gave an account of the expedition in his Walk	Groome
  PRESCOT	Lancashire	Speke. Acres, 56, 859. Poor-rates in 1863, £17, 811 Pop. in 1851, 56,074; in 1861, 73, 127. Houses	Imperial
  SKENFRETH	Monmouthshire	Speke, Esq. The church is ancient but good.-The hundred contains ten parishes, and two parts; and is cut into	Imperial
  Speke	Lancashire	Speke , township and ry. sta., Childwall par., Lancashire, on r. Mersey, 7 m. SE. of Liverpool, 2505 ac. land and 1229 water	Bartholomew
  SPEKE	Lancashire	SPEKE , a township, with a r. station, in Childwall parish, Lancashire; on the river Mersey, and on the Warrington and Liverpool	Imperial
  Spott	East Lothian	Speke Hall, Liverpool (J. Small's Castles and Mansions of the Lothians, Edinb. 1883). Another mansion, noticed separately, is Bower	Groome

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