We could not match "EASTGATE" 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 11 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  EASTGATE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BURY ST EDMUNDS MB (Local Government District)
  EASTGATE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	GLOUCESTER CB (Local Government District)

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



• 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 "EASTGATE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Eastgate-street, completed in 1861, is-handsome edifice with tetrastyle Corinthian portico. The railway station is common to the five	Imperial
  Eastgate	County Durham	Eastgate , vil., in par. and 2½ miles W. of Stanhope, S. Durham; P.O.	Bartholomew
  EASTGATE	County Durham	EASTGATE , a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham; on the river Wear, 2½ miles W of Stanhope town and r. station	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER	Gloucestershire	Eastgate, Westgate, Northgate, and South-gate; but all, except Westgate, have been prolonged far beyond their original terminations. Numerous modern	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Eastgate's church was rebuilt in 1778, on the site of one of the earliest in the city. St. Peter	Imperial
  LOUTH	Lincolnshire	Eastgate, is a pleasing large edifice, of brick and stucco, erected in 1854; and contains a spacious and lofty assembly	Imperial
  Peebles	Peebles Shire	Eastgate, Portbrae, however, still preserve the recollection of Peebles as a walled town. Beyond the western extremity of the High	Groome
  STANHOPE	County Durham	Eastgate, Westgate, Rookhope, Frosterley, Heathery-cleugh, and Weardale are separate benefices. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, school	Imperial
  WINCHESTER	Hampshire Surrey	Eastgate; a Franciscan friary, in Middle Brook-street; the Sustern, or convent of hospitable nuns, near King's-gate; and the hospitals	Imperial

  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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.