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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 "STOCKTON ON THE FOREST":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen		Aberdeen, the ' Granite City,' capital of Aberdeenshire, seat of a university, and chief town and seaport in the North of	Groome
  DURHAM		Stockton. The deanery of Chester contains the rectories of Boldon, Edmond-byers, Gateshead, Gateshead-Fell, Ryton, Washington, Whickham, Whitburn, Winlaton, and Kimbleworth; the vicarage of St. Oswald-Durham; and the p. curacies of Chester-le-Street, Birtley, Eighton - Banks, Lamesley, Lumley, Pelton, Tanfield, St. Margaret-Durham, Hunstanworth, Trinity-Gateshead, St. Edmunds-Gateshead, Jarrow, Heworth, Windy-nook, Lanchester, Benfieldside, Castleside, Collierley, Consett, Ebchester, Esh, Leadgate, Medomsley, Satley, Monkwearmouth, All Saints-Monk-wearmouth, Southwick, South Shields, Westoe, Holy Trinity-South Shields, St. Stephen-South Shields, Stella, Usworth, Witton-Gilbert, and Sacriston. The deanery of Darlington contains the rectories of Brancepeth, Haughton	Imperial
  DURHAM, or Durhamshire		Stockton, and South Shields. Electors for the north division, in 1868, 6, 042; for the south division, 7, 263. There are 18 polling-places; and Durham is the place of election for the north division, Darlington, for the south division. Poor-rates of the registration county, in 1862, £143, 374. Marriages in 1860, 4, 474, -of which 1, 457 were not according to the rites of the Established Church; births, 21, 782, -of which 1, 176 were illegitimate; deaths, 11, 116, -of which 5, 079 were at ages under 5 years, and 208 at ages above 85. Marriages	Imperial
  HARROGATE		Stockton railway, in Knaresborough forest, near the river Nidd, 3 miles SW of Knaresborough, and 15½ N of Leeds	Imperial
  HARTLEPOOL		Stockton; and both have ramifications and connexions which give communication with all important parts of both the coast and the interior. The name seems properly to be, or formerly was, Hart-le-pol, and originated with the Normans. Bede calls the place Heart-ea, signifying "Hart-water, " and Henry of Huntington calls it Hart's Isle; and both these names, as well as Hart-le-pol, appear to allude to the headland as originally a forest	Imperial
  HEREFORD		Stockton-on-Teme; the vicarages of Cleobury-Mortimer, Clifton-on-Teme, Lindridge, Mamble, Bayton, and Tenbury; and the p. curacies of Bockleton, Nash, Cleobury-Mortimer-St. John, Hanley-Child, Orleton, Laysters, Knighton-on-Teme, Pensax, MilsonBewdley, Heightington, and Far-Forest	Imperial
  LICHFIELD		Forest. The deanery of Hartshorn contains the rectories of Hartshorn, Ravenstone, and Stretton-en-le-Field; the vicarage of Repton; and the p. curacies of Donisthorpe, Church-Gresley, Measham, Rosliston, Smisby, and Willesley. The deanery of Lullington contains the rectory of Walton-on-Trent; the vicarages of Croxall, Lullington, Stapenhill, and Willington; and the p. curacies of Cauldwell, Coton, Newhall, Newton-Solney, and Swadlincote. The deanery of Ockbrook contains the rectory of West Hallam; the vicarages of Kirk-Hallam, Ilkeston, Ockbrook, Sawley, Spon don, and Stanton-by-Dale; and the p. curacies of Breaston, Chaddesden, Cotmanhay, Dale-Abbey, Long-Eaton	Imperial
  Stockton on the Forest		Stockton on the Forest , par. and vil., North-Riding Yorkshire - par., 3267 ac., pop. 446; vil., near Warthill sta. and 5 miles	Bartholomew
  STOCKTON-ON-THE-FOREST		STOCKTON-ON-THE-FOREST , a parish, with a village, in the district of York and N. R Yorkshire; adjacent to the York	Imperial

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