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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 "BOTLEYS" (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 "BOTLEYS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BISHOPS-WALTHAM		Botley, and 9½ SE of Winchester. It figured at Domesday as a considerable village; was mentioned by Leland as a "praty	Imperial
  Botley		Botley , hamlet, Wooton Wawen par., S. Warwickshire, 1½ mile NW. of Henley-in-Harden.	Bartholomew
  Botley		Botley , par. and vil. with ry. sta., S. Hants, on river Hamble, 4½ miles S. of Bishop's Waltham	Bartholomew
  Botley		Botley , hamlet, Chesham par., SE. Bucks, 1½ mile E. of Chesham.	Bartholomew
  Botley		Botley .-- tithing, Cumnor and North Hinksey pars., N. Berks, 2 miles W. of Oxford; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BOTLEY		BOTLEY , a tything in Cumnor and North Hinksey parishes, Berks; 2 miles W of Oxford. It has a post office	Imperial
  BOTLEY		BOTLEY , a hamlet in Ullenhall chapelry, Warwick; 1½ mile NNW of Henley-in-Arden.	Imperial
  BOTLEY		Botley Grange and Botley Hill are chief residences. A farm here was held by the political writer William Cobbett. The living	Imperial
  BOTLEY		BOTLEY , a hamlet in Chesham parish, Bucks; 1 ½ mile E of Chesham. Real property, £3,298. Pop., 499.	Imperial
  Botleys and Lyne		Botleys and Lyne , eccl. dist., in par. and 2 m. SW. of Chertsey, W. Surrey, pop. 622; contains B. Park	Bartholomew
  BOTLEYS and LYNE		BOTLEYS and LYNE , a chapelry in Chertsey parish, Surrey; near the Chertsey branch of the Southwestern railway, 2 miles SW of Chertsey	Imperial
  BURSLEDON		Botley to Bishops-Waltham was formed in 1862-3; and one was contemplated, at the same time, from Botley to Bursledon	Imperial
  CHERTSEY		Botleys, Lyne, and Long Cross, and the fine eminence of St. Anne's Hill. Acres, 10, 229. Real property, £27, 498. Pop., 6, 589. Houses	Imperial
  CHESHAM		Botley, Charteridge, Hundridge. Latimer, and Waterside. Acres, 12, 657. Real property, £24, 473. Pop., 5, 985. Houses, 1, 260. The property	Imperial
  CUMNOR		Botley. Acres, 7, 730. Real property, £7, 096. Pop., 1, 021. Houses, 212. The property is divided among a few. The manor	Imperial
  CURDRIDGE		Botley r. station, and 2 miles SSW of Bishops-Waltham. Post town, Botley, under Southampton. Real property, £1, 960. Pop., 534. The living	Imperial
  HINKSEY (NORTH), or Ferry-Hinksey		Botley. Post town, Oxford. Acres, 900. Real property, £2, 520. Pop., 438. Houses, 92. The property is much subdivided	Imperial
  MAINSBRIDGE		Houses, 2,126. The Upper s. contains Botley parish, and four other parishes. Acres, 11,782. Pop. in 1851,4,013. Houses, 811.	Imperial
  OXFORD		Botley turnpike; serves for foot-passengers only; and has, over the navigableportion of the Isis, a wrought-iron lattice girder	Imperial
  STONEHAM (South)		Botley parish, and comprises 10,764 acres. Pop., 8,621. Houses, 1,709.—The district comprehends also Millbrook and St. Mary	Imperial

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