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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  COLLINGHAM	Rural Deanery	NOTTINGHAM (Archdeaconry)

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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 "COLLINGHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Collingham	Yorkshire	Collingham .-- par. and township (ry. sta. C. Bridge), E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Wharfe, 2½ miles SW. of Wetherby	Bartholomew
  Collingham	Nottinghamshire	Collingham , vil. with ry. sta., North and South Collingham pars., S. Notts, 5½ miles NE. of Newark; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  COLLINGHAM	Yorkshire	COLLINGHAM , a parish in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wharfe, near the Harrogate railway, 2 miles SW of Wetherby	Imperial
  Collingham Bridge	Yorkshire	Collingham Bridge , ry. sta., 2 miles SW. of Wetherby, West-Riding Yorkshire.	Bartholomew
  Collingham, North	Nottinghamshire	Collingham, North , par., S. Notts, 6 miles NE. of Newark, 1820 ac., pop. 928.	Bartholomew
  COLLINGHAM (North)	Nottinghamshire	COLLINGHAM (North) , a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Newark district, Notts. The village stands on an affluent	Imperial
  Collingham, South	Nottinghamshire	Collingham, South , par., S. Notts, 5 miles NE. of Newark, 2763 ac., pop. 776.	Bartholomew
  COLLINGHAM (South)	Nottinghamshire	COLLINGHAM (South) , a village and a parish in Newark district, Notts. The village stands on the Fosse way, near Collingham	Imperial
  DEANTHORPE	Nottinghamshire	DEANTHORPE , a village in South Collingham parish, Notts; 3¼ miles N of Newark.	Imperial
  FLEET-RIVER	Nottinghamshire	FLEET-RIVER , a stream of Notts. It rises near Winthorpe; and runs northward, past Collingham, to the Trent at Girton.	Imperial
  GIRTON	Nottinghamshire	Collingham r. station, and 6¼ ESE of Tuxford. Post town, Collingham, under Newark. Acres, 1, 075. Real property, £2, 056. Pop., 188. Houses	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Collingham, Cromwell, Elston, Fledborough, and Winthorpe; the vicarages of Barnby-in-the-Willows, North Clifton, North Collingham, Holme, Laxton, Marnham	Imperial
  Micklethwaite	Yorkshire	Micklethwaite , township, Collingham par., West-Riding Yorkshire, near Wetnerby, 668 ac., pop. 103.	Bartholomew
  MICKLETHWAITE-GRANGE	Yorkshire	tract in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; contiguous to Collingham parish, and sometimes deemed a township of that parish. Pop., 68.	Imperial
  NEWARK	Nottinghamshire	Collingham, containing the parishes of North Collingham, South Collingham, Langford, Winthorpe, Girton, North Clifton, Thorney, and South Scarle, and the extra	Imperial
  NOTTINGHAM and LINCOLN railway	Derbyshire Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Collingham, and Thorpe-on-the-Hill, to Lincoln; sends off a short branch from Fiskerton to Southwell; is crossed at Newark	Imperial
  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE or Notts	Nottinghamshire	Collingham, toward Lincoln; the Nottingham and Grantham railway deflects from the preceding at Colwich, and goes eastward, past Ratcliffe, Bingham	Imperial
  RIPON	Yorkshire	Collingham, Bardsey, Barwick-in-Elmet, Garforth, Kippax, Methley, Wakefield, Sandal-Magna, Darton, Silkstone, and Penistone; and is divided into the archdeaconries	Imperial
  SCARLE (North)	Lincolnshire	Collingham, under Newark. Acres, 1, 955. Real property, £3, 608. Pop., 595. Houses, 135. The manor belongs to W. Houldsworth	Imperial

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