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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 "DRAYCOT":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHIPPENHAM	Wiltshire	Draycot-Cerne, Sutton-Benger, Seagry, and Tytherton-Kelways, and the extra-parochial tract of Avon. Acres, 60, 035. Poor-rates	Imperial
  CRICKLADE	Wiltshire	Draycot-Foliatt, Swindon, and part of Wroughton, in Highworth district; the parishes of Oaksey, Crudwell, Hankerton, Brinkworth, Dauntsey, Norton-Coleparle	Imperial
  Draycot	Somerset	Draycot .-- eccl. dist. and vil. with ry. sta. (Draycott), Cheddar and Stoke Rodney pars., mid. Somerset -- dist., pop. 593; vil., 4 miles	Bartholomew
  Draycot	Staffordshire	Draycot , 2½ miles SW. of Cheadle, N. Staffordshire; P.O. See DRAYCOTT IN THE MOORS.	Bartholomew
  Draycot Cerne	Wiltshire	Draycot Cerne , par., N. Wilts, 3½ miles NE. of Chippenham, 1066 ac., pop. 144; contains D. House .	Bartholomew
  DRAYCOT-CERNE	Wiltshire	DRAYCOT-CERNE , a parish in Chippenham district, Wilts; near the river Avon and the Great Western railway, 3½ miles	Imperial
  Draycote	Warwickshire	Draycote , hamlet, Bourton on Dunsmore par., N. Warwickshire, 5 miles SW of Rugby.	Bartholomew
  DRAYCOTE	Warwickshire	DRAYCOTE , a hamlet in Burton-upon-Dunsmore parish, Warwick; 5¼ miles SW of Rugby. Pop., 142. Draycote hill here	Imperial
  Draycot Foliatt	Wiltshire	Draycot Foliatt , par., N. Wilts, 4½ miles SE. of Swindon, 702 ac., pop. 46.	Bartholomew
  DRAYCOT-MOOR	Berkshire	DRAYCOT-MOOR , a hamlet in Longworth parish, Berks; 5½ miles W of Abingdon. Acres, 1, 041. Real property, £1, 714. Pop., 261. Houses	Imperial
  Draycott	Somerset	Draycott , ry. sta., Somerset. See DRAYCOT.	Bartholomew
  Draycott in the Moors	Staffordshire	Draycott in the Moors , par. and vil., N. Staffordshire, 2½ miles SW. of Cheadle, 3907ac., pop. 406; P.O., called Draycot .	Bartholomew
  DUNDALK	Louth	Draycot, who had previously obtained a lease for 21 years. Near the town is a spring, arched over with ancient	Lewis:Ireland
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	Draycot-Cerne, Griddleton, Hardenhuish, Kellaways, West Kington, Langley-Burrell, Leigh-Delamere, Littleton-Drew, Nettleton, North Wraxall, and Yatton-Keynell; the vicarages	Imperial
  HIGHWORTH	Wiltshire	Draycot-Foliatt, and Wronghton. Acres, 50, 064. Poor rates, in 1863, £8, 346. Pop. in 1851, 17, 620; in 1861, 19, 237. Houses	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Draycot-le-Moors, and Kingsley; the vicarages of Alton, Caverswell, and Dilhorne; and the p. curacies of Bradley-le-Moors	Imperial
  LONGWORTH	Berkshire	Draycot-Moor. Acres, 4,415. Real property, £3,978. Pop., 1,131. Houses, 255. The manor belonged once to Sir H. Marten	Imperial
  NYLAND	Somerset	Draycot. Acres, 590. Real property, £2,094. Pop., 40. Houses, 6. An ancient church, called and redesey, stood on an acclivity	Imperial
  Willie	Derbyshire	miles SE. of Derby, 5713 ac., pop. 2071; contains Church Wilne, Draycot, Breaston, &C., and has lace and cotton factories.	Bartholomew
  WILTS, or Wiltshire	Wiltshire	Malmsbury. And ancient churches are at Salisbury, Bishops-Cannings, Great Bedwin, Anstey, Chippenham, Castlecombe, Durnford, Draycote, Tisbury, and Steeple-Ashton.	Imperial

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