We could not match "STENNESS" 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 15 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 "STENNESS" (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 "STENNESS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Birsay and Harray	Orkney	Stenness, and SW by Sandwick. Its greatest length, from NNW to SSE, is 11 miles, and its greatest breadth is 6½ miles	Groome
  Brogar-Bridge	Orkney	Stenness, in the S W of the mainland of Orkney. It is situated 9½ miles W of Kirk wall	Groome
  Burness	Orkney	Burness, an estate, with a mansion, in Firth and Stenness parish, Orkney.	Groome
  Burness	Orkney	Burness -- seat, in Firth and Stenness par., Orkney.	Bartholomew
  Cairston	Orkney	Stenness (q. s.), Harray, Birsay (q. s.), Hoy and Graemsay, Orphir, Sandwick, and Walls and Flotta. Pop. (1871) 10,465, (1881) 10,414, of whom	Groome
  Finstown	Orkney	Stenness parish, Orkney, at the head of Firth Bay, 6 miles WNW of Kirkwall. It has a post office, with	Groome
  Firth	Orkney	Stenness. The united parish of Firth and Stenness, in its SW or Stenness portion, communicates by a bridge with Stromness	Groome
  Maeshowe or Maiden's Mound	Orkney	Stenness parish, Orkney, near the head of the Loch of Harray, 9 miles WNW of Kirkwall and 5¾ NE of Stromness	Groome
  Orkney	Orkney	Stenness (Firth and Stenness), Eday and Fara (Stronsay and Eday), North Ronaldsay (Cross and Burness), and the mission stations of Rendal	Groome
  Orphir	Orkney	Stenness, NE by Kirkwall, S by Scapa Flow, and SW and W by Hoy Sound. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 7 miles	Groome
  Pomona or Mainland	Orkney	Stenness, Orphir, Kirkwall, St Andrews, Deerness, and Holm; but Birsay and Harray, Evie and Rendall, Firth and Stenness, and St Andrews	Groome
  Sandwick	Orkney	Stenness and the Loch of Stenness, S by Stromness, and W by the Atlantic Ocean. Its utmost length, from N to S, is 5½ miles	Groome
  Shetland	Shetland	Stenness is the Skerry of Eshaness [at the NW corner of St Magnus Bay], formidably rising from the sea, and showing	Groome
  Stenness	Orkney	Stenness, an Orkney parish, whose church stands near the SE shore of the Loch of Stenness, 5 ½ miles NE of Stromness	Groome
  Stromness	Orkney	Stenness, SE by the Bay of Ireland, S by Hoy Sound, and W by the Atlantic. Its utmost length, from	Groome

  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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.