We could not match "CHARING CROSS" 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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• 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 "CHARING CROSS" (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 "CHARING CROSS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Beckton	Essex	Beckton , sta. on Great Eastern Ry., Essex, 8 miles E. of Charing Cross, London.	Bartholomew
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	CANTERBURY , a city in Kent, and a diocese in Kent and Surrey. The city partly forms a district of itself	Imperial
  Charing Cross	London	Charing Cross , ry. sta., London; West End Terminus of South-Eastern Ry.	Bartholomew
  CHARING-CROSS	London	CHARING-CROSS , a subdistrict and a railway in London. The subdistrict is part of the parish and district of St. Martin	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Charing Cross, Eglinton Street, Fish Market, Hillhead, Hope Street, Kingston, Partick, St Enoch's Square, the Cross and Whitevale, and with	Groome
  LADYWELL	Kent	Kent; on the London and Beckenham railway, adjacent to Lewisham, 7 miles SE of Charing Cross, London. It has a telegraph office.	Imperial
  LAMBETH	Surrey	Charing Cross and London Bridge; has abundant facilities of pier and wharf for sharing in the upper traffic of the river	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Charing-cross bridge, with the Charing-cross and the Northwestern and Charing-cross lines; proceeds from Blackfriars bridge under the London	Imperial
  LONDON AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY	London	Charing-cross; and contemplated, for the session of 1866, agreements with the Whitehaven Junction and the Cockermouth and Workington. The capital	Imperial
  MARTIN (ST.)-IN-THE-FIELDS	Middlesex	Charing-Cross railway bridge; comprises the wards of Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross-first, Charing-Cross-second, Speer-alley, Exchange, Stra	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , a town, four parishes, and a district, in Northumberland. The town stands on the river Tyne at	Imperial
  NORTHWESTERN and CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY	Middlesex	CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY , a railway in Middlesex; from the Hampstead-Road to the Charing-Cross, with a branch to the London	Imperial
  Oban	Argyll	Charing Cross of the Hebrides.' Oban is the focus of steam communication, by land and sea, between the south and the north	Groome
  SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY	Kent London Surrey Sussex	Charing-Cross; and it had altogether 334 miles in operation at the end of 1867. Its capital account, at 31 July	Imperial
  Temple	London	Charing Cross and Blackfriars. The Temple is an extensive series of buildings on S. side of Fleet Street, belonging to the members	Bartholomew
  Waterloo Junction	Surrey	Waterloo Junction , ry. sta., Surrey, between Charing Cross and London Bridge.	Bartholomew
  WATERLOO ROAD (First and Second)	Surrey	railway is a railway on the pneumatic principle, ¾ mile long, from W. station to Charing-Cross; and was authorized in 1865.	Imperial
  WESTMINSTER	Middlesex	Charing-Cross and Pimlico or Victoria and it commands, from these points, and from other near ones, immediate railway communication	Imperial
  Westminster Bridge Station	Middlesex	Charing Cross and Victoria Stations; Westminster Bridge (constructed 1856-62) consists of 7 arches, and is 1160 ft. long and 85 wide	Bartholomew

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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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