We could not match "BRIGHTWELL" 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 20 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 "BRIGHTWELL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BERRICK-SALOME	Oxfordshire	Brightwell, under Wallingford. Acres, 678. Real property, £971. Pop., 141. Houses, 36. The living is a p. curacy, annexed	Imperial
  Brightwell	Berkshire	Brightwell , par., N. Berks, 2 miles NW. of Wallingford, 2064 ac., pop. 618; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Brightwell	Suffolk	Brightwell .-- par., E. Suffolk, 5 miles SE. of Ipswich, 1114 ac., pop. 68.	Bartholomew
  BRIGHTWELL	Suffolk	BRIGHTWELL , a parish in Woodbridge district, Suffolk; 3 miles S by E of Bealings r. station, and 5½ E by S of Ipswich	Imperial
  BRIGHTWELL	Berkshire	BRIGHTWELL , a parish in Wallingford district, Berks; near the river Thames and the Great Western railway, 2½ miles WNW of Wallingford	Imperial
  Brightwell Baldwin	Oxfordshire	Brightwell Baldwin , par., SE. Oxfordshire, 2 miles NW. of Waltington, 1612 ac., pop. 220.	Bartholomew
  BRIGHTWELL-BALDWIN, or Britwell-Baldwin	Oxfordshire	BRIGHTWELL-BALDWIN , or Britwell-Baldwin, a parish in Henley district, Oxford: 2¼ miles W by N of Watlington, and 8 NNE of Wallingford	Imperial
  Brightwell Prior and Brightwell Salome		Brightwell Prior and Brightwell Salome . See BRITWELL.	Bartholomew
  BRIGHTWELL-PRIOR, or Britwell-Prior	Oxfordshire	BRIGHTWELL-PRIOR , or Britwell-Prior, a chapelry in Newington parish, Oxford; under the Chilterns, 1¾ mile SW of Watlington	Imperial
  BRIGHTWELL-SALOME, or Britwell-Salome	Oxfordshire	BRIGHTWELL-SALOME , or Britwell-Salome, a parish in Henley district, Oxford; on Icknield-street; under the Chilterns, 1¼ mile	Imperial
  Brightwells Barrow	Gloucestershire	Brightwells Barrow , hundred, E. Gloucestershire, 36,013 ac., pop. 7052; contains 11 pars.	Bartholomew
  BRIGHTWELLS-BARROW	Gloucestershire	BRIGHTWELLS-BARROW , a hundred in the E of Gloucester. It adjoins Oxford and Berks; is 9½ miles long; and contains	Imperial
  Cadwell	Oxfordshire	Cadwell , liberty, Brightwell-Baldwin par., SE. Oxfordsh., 3½ m. NW. of Watlington.	Bartholomew
  CADWELL	Oxfordshire	CADWELL , a liberty in Brightwell-Baldwin parish, Oxford; 3½ miles WNW of Watlington.	Imperial
  EWELME	Oxfordshire	Brightwell, under Wallingford. Acres, 2, 376. Real property, £4, 435. Pop., 684. Houses, 152. The manor belonged, at Domesday	Imperial
  FOXHALL	Suffolk	hops. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Brightwell, in the diocese of Norwich. There is no church.	Imperial
  GLOUCESTERSHIRE, or Gloucester	Gloucestershire	Brightwells - Barrow, Cheltenham, Cleeve, Crowthorne, Deerhurst, Dudstone, Kiftsgate, Longtree, Rapsgate, Slaughter, Tewkesbury, Tibald-stone, Westminster, and Whitstone; and the W division	Imperial
  HENLEY	Oxfordshire	Brightwell-Baldwin, Cuxham, and part of Newington, all electorally in Oxfordshire. Acres of the district, 61, 662. Poor rates, in 1863, £13, 472. Pop., in 1851, 17, 895; in 1861, 18, 200. Houses	Imperial
  KESGRAVE	Suffolk	annexed to the p. curacy of Brightwell, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is of brick, with a tower.	Imperial
  OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford, or Oxon	Oxfordshire	Brightwell House, Caversfield House, Caversham Park, Chastleton House, Cokethorp Park, Combe Lodge, Crowsley Park, Culham House, Eynsham Hall, Fawley Court	Imperial

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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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