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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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  KEW LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	RICHMOND MB (Local Government District)

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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 "KEW":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BODMIN	Cornwall	Kew. Acres of the district, 88,981. Poor-rates in 1866, £10,710. Pop. in 1861, 19,691. Houses	Imperial
  BRENTFORD	Middlesex	Kew; and another bridge, erected in 1825 on the site of a very ancient one, crosses the Brent. The town	Imperial
  Churchtown	Cornwall	Churchtown , vil., St Kew par., E. Cornwall, 4½ miles NE. of Wadebridge.	Bartholomew
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Kew, St. Tethe, Tintagel, and St. Minver; and the p. curacies of Lanhydrock, Porthilly, and St. Enodoc. The deanery of Powder	Imperial
  HAMMERSMITH	Middlesex	Kew section of the North London railway; has post offices‡ in Broadway, King street, Dorcas terrace, and Starch green	Imperial
  HAMPSTEAD	Middlesex	Kew branch of the North London railway, near a tunnel of the Northwestern railway, 5 miles NW of St. Paul	Imperial
  ISLEWORTH	Middlesex	Kew; consists chiefly of one street, with a square; was a very fashionable place prior to the removal of the Court	Imperial
  KEA, or St. KEA	Cornwall	Kew. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Kenwyn, in the diocese of Exeter. The church was built	Imperial
  KENTISH-TOWN	Middlesex	Kew section of the railway, a post office‡ under Hampstead, London NW, a police station, assembly rooms, and a brewery	Imperial
  Kew	Surrey	Kew , par. and vil. (ry. sta. Kew Gardens), Surrey, on r. Thames, at boundary with Middlesex, opposite Brentford (with which	Bartholomew
  KEW	Surrey	Kew first became a royal residence about 1730. Kew House then belonged to the Capel family. Frederick, Prince of Wales	Imperial
  Kew Bridge Station	Middlesex	Kew Bridge Station , ry sta. at N. end of Kew Bridge, Brentford, Middlesex.	Bartholomew
  Kew Gardens Station	Surrey	Kew Gardens Station , ry. sta. at Kew, Surrey.	Bartholomew
  KEW (ST.)	Cornwall	KEW (ST.) , a village and a parish in Bodmin district, Cornwall. The village stands on the river Amble, 4½ miles	Imperial
  KEWSTOKE	Somerset	Kew Steps, leads up to a magnificent view and an ancient camp on Worle Hill. Limestone is quarried. The living	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Kew, Kingstonupon-Thames, Long Ditton, Malden, Merton, Mitcham, Morden, Mortlake, Petersham, Richmond, Sanderstead, Sutton, Thames-Ditton, Wallington, Warlingham, West Moulsey	Imperial
  LONDON AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY	London	Kew, Brentford, and the main line beyond Hounslow. Its aggregate productive extent, in 1866, was 493¾ miles. The company	Imperial
  PETERSHAM	Surrey	Kew, in the diocese of Winchester. The church was built in 1505; has been mainly modernized; and contains the grave	Imperial
  RICHMOND	Surrey	Kew and Petersham, and the extra-parochial Thames Navigation toll-house. Acres, 2, 120. Pop. in 1851, 10, 917; in 1861, 12, 665. Houses	Imperial
  St Kew	Cornwall	Kew , par. and vil., Cornwall - par., 7563 ac. and 201 foreshore, pop. 1102; vil., 7 miles S. of Camelford; P.O.	Bartholomew

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