We could not match "WIELD" 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 18 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 "WIELD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALTON	Hampshire	Wield, Medsted, Bentworth, Lasham, Shalden, East-Tisted, Chawton, Farringdon, and Newton-Valence. Acres, 25,575. Pop., 7,197. Houses, 1,352. The district	Imperial
  BASINGWERK	Flintshire	wielding command over a wide country; but has all disappeared excepting mere vestiges. The abbey is called also Dinas-Basing	Imperial
  Dunfermline	Fife	wielding the power of life and death. A bailie of regality, appointed by the abbot and officiating in his name	Groome
  DURHAM	County Durham	wielded nearly all the authority in their diocese which the king did in other parts of England. They were Counts	Imperial
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	wield the authority formerly possessed by the police commissioners, and form committees to carry out police acts; are also commissioners	Groome
  Edinburghshire or Midlothian	Midlothian	wielding that superior power, or entitled to wield it, till the time when the baronial jurisdictions became extinct. The power	Groome
  Galston	Ayrshire	wields a considerable local influence as the centre of an extensive coalfield and of an opulent agricultural district. It has a station	Groome
  Kirkcudbright	Kirkcudbrightshire	wielding not a little influence in Galloway, has already been incidentally noticed. Sir Patrick Maclellan, proprietor of the barony of Bombie	Groome
  Linlithgow	Midlothian West Lothian	wielded a mallet fixed to the stump of his other arm. It has a number of curious figures, and the top is surmounted	Groome
  Logierait	Perthshire	wielded wide jurisdiction with almost absolute powers, the village then had its court-house, gaol, and Tom-nacroiche or ` gallows	Groome
  LONDON AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY	London	wield permanent powers for working steam-vessels between English and French ports and the Channel islands; in 1862, to lease	Imperial
  MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE	Cornwall	wielded in the cause of Charles II. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, two chapels for United Free Methodists	Imperial
  Maybole	Ayrshire	wielded more influence over its province than the modern metropolis does over Scotland, and contained the winter residences of a large	Groome
  MICHAEL-CARHAYES	Cornwall	gauntlets of the Trevanion family, including a sword wielded by Sir Hugh Trevanion at Bosworth field; and was recently restored.	Imperial
  NORTHUMBERLAND	Northumberland	wielded vast powers for repelling or punishing raids during the middle ages; and they were aided, in the discharge of their	Imperial
  OKEHAMPTON, or Oakhampton	Devon	wielded great power throughout the barony, exercised the right of capital punishment over eight manors, and acted as stewards at the installation	Imperial
  Wield	Hampshire	Wield , par., Hants, 7 miles W. of Alton, 2104 ac., pop. 246.	Bartholomew
  WIELD	Hampshire	WIELD , a parish in Alton district, Hants; 6½ miles W of Alton r. station. Post town, Alresford. Acres, 2,087. Real	Imperial

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