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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  STAINFORTH	Manor	GIGGLESWICK CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)
  STAINFORTH	Manor	GIGGLESWICK CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)

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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 "STAINFORTH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BRAMWITH (Kirk)	Yorkshire	Stainforth and Keadby canal, and on the Doncaster and Keadby railway, 6¾ miles NE by N of Doncaster. It has a station	Imperial
  BRAMWITH (Sand)	Yorkshire	BRAMWITH (Sand) , a hamlet in Stainforth township, Hatfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; contiguous to Kirk-Bramwith parish.	Imperial
  CROWLE	Lincolnshire	Stainforth and Keadby canal, the Doncaster and Keadby railway, and the boundary with Yorkshire, 6¾ miles E by S of Thorne	Imperial
  DON (The)	Yorkshire	course, by the Hodbeck, the Wente, and other tributaries, and by the Dearne and Dove and the Stainforth and Keadley canals.	Imperial
  FISHLAKE	Yorkshire	Stainforth r. station, and 2 W by S of Thorne; and includes the villages of Fosterhouses and Hay-Green. Acres	Imperial
  GIGGLESWICK	Yorkshire	Stainforth, and Rathmell. Acres, 18, 419. Real property, £26, 100. Pop. in 1851, 3, 965; in 1861, 3, 187. Houses	Imperial
  Hatfield	Yorkshire	Stainforth and Hatfield), S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 7 miles NE. of Doncaster - par., 17,777 ac. (including part of Stainforth	Bartholomew
  HATFIELD	Yorkshire	Stainforth, an Independent chapel in Hatfield, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels in Hatfield, Stainforth, and Woodhouse, and a Unitarian chapel	Imperial
  KEADBY	Lincolnshire	Stainforth and Keadby canal, and at the terminus of the Thorne and Keadby branch of the South Yorkshire railway, 4 miles	Imperial
  Knight Stainforth	Yorkshire	Knight Stainforth , hamlet, Giggleswick par., N. div. West Riding Yorkshire, near Settle.	Bartholomew
  KNIGHT-STAINFORTH	Yorkshire	KNIGHT-STAINFORTH , a hamlet in Stainforth township, Giggleswick parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near Settle.	Imperial
  Stainforth	Yorkshire	Stainforth vil. (ry. sta. Stainforth and Hatfield), Hatfield par. and township, partly also in Barnby upon Don par. S. div. West	Bartholomew
  Stainforth	Yorkshire	Stainforth .-- township and vil., Giggleswick par. N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - township, 3696 ac., pop 207; vil., 3 miles N. of Settle	Bartholomew
  STAINFORTH	Yorkshire	STAINFORTH , a township in Hatfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Don and the Keadby canal, 3½ miles	Imperial
  STAINFORTH	Yorkshire	STAINFORTH , a township in Giggleswick parish, and a chapelry partly also in Arncliffe and Kirkby-in-Malhamdale parishes, W. R. Yorkshire	Imperial

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