We could not match "BALERNO" 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 "BALERNO":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Balerno	Midlothian	Balerno, a village in Currie parish, Edinburghshire, on the right bank of the Water of Leith, with a station on a loop	Groome
  Balerno	Midlothian	Balerno , vil. with ry. sta., Currie par., NW. Edinburghshire, on Water of Leith, 7 miles SW. of Edinburgh, pop. 474; P.O., T.O.; has several	Bartholomew
  Balerno Railway	Midlothian	Balerno Railway, an Edinburghshire loop line of the Caledonian, 5 1 / 65 miles long, from Slateford to Ravelrig siding. A single	Groome
  Bavelaw	Midlothian	Balerno. It is overlooked, on the right, 2½ miles below its source, by remains of an ancient royal hunting	Groome
  Bavelaw Burn	Midlothian	Bavelaw Burn , stream, on which are two reservoirs, SW. Edinburghshire, running 6 miles to the Water of Leith at Balerno.	Bartholomew
  Caledonian Railway	Midlothian	Balerno and Currie, rejoining the main line at Slateford. In the immediate vicinity of Edinburgh various connections have been made	Groome
  Colinton	Midlothian	Balerno loop-line of the Caledonian (1874), a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, 2 inns	Groome
  Currie	Midlothian	Balerno are a U.P. church and St Mungo's Episcopal chapel; and two public schools, Balerno and Currie, and Balerno	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Balerno, Bathgate, Broxburn, Burra, East Calder, East Linton, Fala, Ford, Gorebridge, Howgate, Lasswade, Lerwick, Midcalder, Mossbank, Newlands, North Berwick, Ollaberry	Groome
  Edinburghshire or Midlothian	Midlothian	Balerno, Colinton, Corstorphine, Cramond, Dnddingston, Eskbank, Fala, Gilmerton, Gorebridge, Granton, Kirknewton, Lasswade, Loanhead, Midcalder, Newbattle, Newhaven, Ratho, Roslin, Slateford, and Stow	Groome
  Harelaw	Midlothian	Balerno. A reservoir is on it at an elevation of 802 feet above sea-level; and a cairn, comprising about	Groome
  Harelaw Reservoir	Midlothian	Harelaw Reservoir , Currie par., Edinburghshire, 1½ mile SE. of Balerno sta.	Bartholomew
  Juniper Green	Midlothian	Balerno loop-line (1874) of the Caledonian railway, 1 mile ENE of Currie and 5½ miles SW of Edinburgh	Groome
  Kirkliston	Midlothian West Lothian	Balerno and 7¾ (as the crow flies) S of Kirkliston village. Its church having once belonged to the Knights	Groome
  Leith, Water of	Midlothian	Balerno; and its other tributaries are small but numerous, mostly from the Pentlands. Its volume varies, according to the weather	Groome
  Lislonshiels	Midlothian	section of Kirkliston par., Edinburghshire, in the Pentland Hills, 8 miles S. of Kirkliston vil. and 4 miles SW. of Balerno.	Bartholomew
  Malleny	Midlothian	Balerno village and station. The house is old and ivy-mantled, with -Dutch gardens, and fine old yews and plane	Groome
  Malleny	Midlothian	Malleny , old seat, Currie par., Edinburghshire, near Balerno.	Bartholomew

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