We could not match "GODOLPHIN" 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 15 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 "GODOLPHIN" (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 "GODOLPHIN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BREAGE, or St. Breage	Cornwall	Godolphin family; and belongs now to the Duke of Leeds. Godolphin mansion is now used as a farmhouse. Godolphin hill	Imperial
  COLUMB-MINOR (St.)	Cornwall	Godolphin. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £117.* Patron, Lord Churston. The church is large	Imperial
  CORNWALL	Cornwall	Godolphin. Canals go from Bude to Launceston, and from St. Cleer and Liskeard to St. Looe. Main lines of road	Imperial
  Dunblane	Perthshire	Godolphin Osborne, ninth Duke of Leeds and eighth Viscount Dunblane (b. 1828; suc. 1872). The town itself, though ranking as a city	Groome
  Godolphin	Cornwall	Godolphin , eccl. dist. and hamlet, Breage par., W. Cornwall -- dist., pop. 1245; the hamlet is 5 miles NW. of Helston	Bartholomew
  GODOLPHIN	Cornwall	Godolphin House was built, in the time of Elizabeth, by Sir Francis Godolphin; belonged to the Godolphin family till they	Imperial
  HAMMERSMITH	Middlesex	Godolphin grammar school, a very fine building, was erected in 1862, in Bradmore, at a cost of about £7, 000; and, for a capitation	Imperial
  HILARY (ST.)	Cornwall	Godolphins and others. The p. curacy of Marazion is a separate benefice. There are several dissenting chapels. Palmer, the Nonconformist	Imperial
  LLANYBLODWELL	Shropshire	Godolphins, and others. There are an endowed school with £10 a year, and a national school. The Rev. John	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	Godolphin, Heneage and Daniel Earls of Nottingham, Bennet Earl of Arlington, Carteret Earl Granville, St. John Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Lyttleton	Imperial
  PAUL	Cornwall	Godolphins, the Pendarveses, and others; and was reported in 1859as not good. The churchyard contains the grave and monument of Dolly	Imperial
  PENGERSWICK	Cornwall	then to Gov. Milliton; passed to the Hals, the Godolphins, and others; and has left two towers and some other remains.	Imperial
  SALISBURY	Berkshire Dorset Wiltshire	Godolphin family, for 8 orphan daughters of poorgentlemen, has about £300 a year from endowment. There are several other	Imperial
  SCILLY ISLANDS	Cornwall	Godolphin; they became a retreat of Prince Charles in 1645-6, after the defeat of the royal cause in the west	Imperial
  Tulliallan	Kincardineshire Perthshire	Godolphin Osborne, uncle of the -Duke of Leeds. Another mansion, Sands, is noticed separately. Tulliallan is in the presbytery of Dunblane	Groome

  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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