We could not match "BIRNIE" 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 19 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 "BIRNIE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Angry or Lennoc Burn	Moray	Birnie and Dallas parishes, 4 miles northward to the Lossie. It is voluminous and very impetuous after rains: it makes	Groome
  Angry, or Lennox Burn	Moray	Angry , or Lennox Burn , rivulet, Elginshire, flowing 4 miles N. along boundary between Birnie and Dallas pars. to the Lossie.	Bartholomew
  Arbuthnott	Kincardineshire	Birnie Hill (482). The vale of the Bervie has many curves and windings, abounds in large haughs and steep wooded	Groome
  Biblestone	Moray	Birnie parish, Elginshire, about a mile E of Birnie church. It lies on the side of the road from Birnie	Groome
  Birnie	Moray	Birnie ( Brennack in 12th c.), a parish of Elginshire, containing the hamlet of Thomshill, 3½ miles S of its post	Groome
  Birnie	Moray	Birnie , par., NE. Elginshire, 6777 ac., pop. 367; has a Romanesque church with a curious baptismal font, a sculptured stone	Bartholomew
  Castleton	Roxburghshire	Birny Fell (902), *Roan Fell (1862), Din Fell (1735), Hermitage Hill (1321), *Tudhope Hill (1961), *Cauldcleuch Head (1996), and *Greatmoor	Groome
  Dallas	Moray	Birnie, SE by Rothes and Knockando, W by Edinkillie, and NW by Rafford. Rudely triangular in outline, it has an utmost	Groome
  Durisdeer	Dumfries Shire	Birny Rig, 1195 at Fardingmullach Hill, and 724 near Crairiepark; whilst to the left or E of the Nith, the chief	Groome
  Elgin	Moray	Birnie, sometimes at Spynie, sometimes at Kinneddar-permanently at the Church of the Holy Trinity at Elgin; and to this	Groome
  Elgin	Moray	Birnie, and Dallas; on the W by Rafford, and on the NW by Alves. Its shape is very irregular, but the greatest	Groome
  Elginshire or Moray	Moray	Birnie and Dallas. A clay soil prevails throughout Duffus and Alves, part of Spynie, and small strips in the sandy	Groome
  Glenlatterach	Moray	Birnie parishes, Elginshire. It is traversed by the Angry or Lennoc Burn, flowing 4 miles northward to the Lossie, and forming	Groome
  Glen Latterach	Moray	Birnie pars., Elginshire; is traversed by the Angry or Lennoc Burn, flowing N. to the Lossie, and making a waterfall	Bartholomew
  Losie	Moray	Birnie, Elgin, Spynie, St AndrewsLhanbryd, and Drainie. The distance from source to mouth is only 19 miles, but so numerous	Groome
  Markinch	Fife	birnie, Gateside, Kirkforthar, Scythrum, CameronBridge. In these, and in the country round about them, are conducted the various mills, bleachfields	Groome
  Moray, Province of	Moray	Birnie, Elgin, and Kintrae, near the latter of which is also Inchagarty or ' the priest's island. ' The ancient diocese	Groome
  RASHARKIN	Antrim	Birnie and the latter by Miss Birnie; a school at Glenback is in connection with the Board of National Education	Lewis:Ireland
  Rothes	Banffshire Moray	Birnie and Elgin. The greater part of the eastern and south-eastern boundaries are natural, lying along the river Spey	Groome

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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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