We could not match "WENSLEY" 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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• 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 "WENSLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BOLTON-CASTLE, or Castle-Bolton	Yorkshire	Wensley parish, N. R. Yorkshire; in Wensleydale, 5½ miles WNW of Leyburn r. station. Post Town, Leyburn, under Bedale	Imperial
  Castle Bolton	Yorkshire	Wensley par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles NW. of Leyburn ry. sta. 4956 ac., pop. 169; contains Bolton Hall , seat	Bartholomew
  DARLEY	Derbyshire	Wensley and Snitterton. Acres, 7, 104. Rated property, £10, 400. Pop., 2, 156. Houses, 451. The property is much	Imperial
  LEYBURN	Yorkshire	Wensley parish, and comprises 2,407 acres. Real property, £5,234. Pop., 886. Houses, 169. The manor belongs to Lord	Imperial
  Preston under Scar	Yorkshire	Preston under Scar , township, Wensley par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 2 m. W. of Leyburn, 2577 ac., pop. 362.	Bartholomew
  PRESTON-UNDER-SCAR	Yorkshire	Wensley parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles W of Leyburn. Acres, 2, 509. Real property, £13, 663; of which	Imperial
  Redmire	Yorkshire	Wensley par., North-Riding Yorkshire, on river Ure, 4½ miles W. of Leyburn - dist. ( Redmire with Bolton ), pop 516; township	Bartholomew
  REDMIRE	Yorkshire	Wensley parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Ure, 4¾ miles W of Leyburn r. station. Post-town, Leyburn	Imperial
  Snitterton		Snitterton . See WENSLEY AND SNITTERTON.	Bartholomew
  Wensley	Yorkshire	Wensley , par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., North-Riding Yorkshire - par. (containing Leyburn), 14,445 ac., pop. 2172; township	Bartholomew
  WENSLEY	Yorkshire	WENSLEY , a village, a township, and a parish, in Leyburn district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river	Imperial
  WENSLEY and SNITTERTON	Derbyshire	WENSLEY and SNITTERTON , a township in Darley parish, Derby; 3½ miles WNW of Matlock. It forms the chapelry of Cross	Imperial
  Wensley and Snitterton (or South Darley)	Derbyshire	Wensley and Snitterton (or South Darley ), township, Darley par., Derbyshire, 2007 ac., pop. 679; contains Wensley , vil., 3½ miles	Bartholomew

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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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