Searching for "WEST PARLEY"

You searched for "WEST PARLEY" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 8 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 "WEST PARLEY" (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 "WEST PARLEY":
    Place name County Entry Source
    CHRISTCHURCH Hampshire west front, and is pierced with a great door and a six-light window; and the north porch is early English, projects more than 40 feet, and is approached through an avenue of elms. The chief monuments in the church are a sculpture, by Weeks, to the poet Shelley; a memorial window to Mr. Ferrey; a statue, by Flaxman, to Viscountess Fitzharris; a chantry, of Caen stone, to the Countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Pole; and chantries, altar-tombs, or other monuments to the fourth Earl of Devon, Bishop Draper, Robert Harys, John Barnes, Robert White, Sir John Chidioke Imperial
    DROGHEDA Louth parley, accepted terms of capitulation, and marched out with their baggage, leaving behind them their arms, stores, and ammunition; and Col. Cutts' regiment immediately took possession of the place and preserved it from violence. The town is advantageously situated on the great north road from Dublin to Belfast, and on the river Boyne, which discharges itself into the Irish sea about three miles below, and by which it is divided into two unequal portions, of which the larger, on the north side, ' is connected with the smaller by a bridge of three arches, erected in 1722. The streets are tolerably Lewis:Ireland
    Glasgow Lanarkshire
    Renfrewshire
    Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of Groome
    Parley, West Dorset Parley, West , par. and vil., Dorset, in E. of co., on river Stour, 5 m. SE. of Wimborne, 3407 ac., pop. 336. Bartholomew
    PARLEY (West) Dorset PARLEY (West) , a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; on the river Stour, contiguous to Hants, 5 miles E S E of Wimborne Imperial
    QUEEN'S County Laoighis parley with him, to bring him back to his allegiance, in which they were entrapped in an ambuscade, and the Earl of Ormonde made prisoner, and detained till he paid a ransom of £3000. The daring insurgent himself was shortly after killed in a skirmish with Lord Mountjoy; and the followers of the O'Mores were driven into the counties of Cork and Kerry, then nearly depopulated. At this juncture many English families, to whom grants of the lands thus forfeited had been made, settled here. Seven of them, whose founders were most influential in securing the new settlements Lewis:Ireland
    SALISBURY and DORSET railway Dorset
    Wiltshire
    from Salisbury 18½ miles south-westward to a junction at West Parley, near Wimborne. It was authorized in 1861. Imperial
    West Moors Dorset West Moors , hamlet with ry. sta., West Parley par., Dorset, in E. of co., 4 miles NE. of Wimborne. 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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