We could not match "GREAT MISSENDEN" 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 14 possible matches we have found for you:

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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 "GREAT MISSENDEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  AMERSHAM	Buckinghamshire	Missenden, containing the parishes of Lee and Great Missenden; the sub district of Chesham, containing the parishes of Chesham, and Chesham	Imperial
  AYLESBURY, or Ailesbury	Buckinghamshire	Great Missenden, in the district of Amersham; and the parishes of Bled low-with-Ridge, Ellesborough, Great Hampden, Little Hampden	Imperial
  BRANDSFEE	Buckinghamshire	BRANDSFEE , a liberty in the parishes of Hitchenden, Great Missenden, and Little Missenden, Bucks; 3 ½ miles NNE of Wycombe.	Imperial
  BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, or Bucks	Buckinghamshire	Great Marlow, and High Wycombe. The market-towns are Amersham, Aylesbury, Beaconsfield, Buckingham, Chesham, Colnbrook, Fenny-Stratford, Great Marlow, High Wycombe, Ivinghoe, Olney, Princes-Risborough, Slough, Stony Stratford, and Winslow. The chief seats are Stowe, Bulstrode, Wotton, Hampden, Penn, Eythorp, Dropmore, Morton, Aston-Clinton, Ashridge, Lillies, Ditton, Halton, Dorton, Harleyford, Westhorpe, Thornton, Chequers, Claydon, Winchendon, Wooburn, Shardeloes, Padbury, Stoke, Weston-Underwood, Iver, Little Missenden	Imperial
  Great Missenden	Buckinghamshire	Great Missenden , 5 miles NW. of Amersham, Bucks; P.O., T.O. See MISSENDEN, GREAT.	Bartholomew
  HAMPDEN (Great)	Buckinghamshire	Great) , a parish in Wycombe district, Bucks; upon the Chiltern hills, 3 miles ESE of PrincesRisborough r. station, and 4 S by W of Wendover. It contains the hamlet of Hampden Row; and its post town is Great Missenden	Imperial
  Hampden Row	Buckinghamshire	Hampden Row , hamlet, Great and Little Hampden pars., Bucks, 4 miles NW. of Great Missenden; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Misbourn	Buckinghamshire	Misbourn , river, Bucks; rises near Great Missenden, and flows 14 m. SE. to the Coin 1 m. above Uxbridge.	Bartholomew
  MISE, or MISS (THE)	Buckinghamshire	Great Missenden village; and running about 14 miles south-south-eastward, past Little Missenden, Amersham, and the Chalfonts, to the Colne	Imperial
  MISSENDEN	Buckinghamshire	MISSENDEN , a sub-district in Amersham district, Bucks; containing the parishes of Great Missenden and Lee. Acres, 6,231. Pop., 2,366. Houses	Imperial
  Missenden, Great	Buckinghamshire	Missenden, Great , par. and vil., Bucks, 4½ miles NW. of Amersham, 5819 ac., pop. 2170; P.O., T.O.; at Missenden	Bartholomew
  MISSENDEN (GREAT)	Buckinghamshire	MISSENDEN (GREAT) , a village and a parish in Amersham district, Bucks. The village stands in a charming valley, near the source	Imperial
  Prestwood	Buckinghamshire	also in Great Missenden and Stoke Mandeville pars., Bucks - dist., pop. 995; vil., 2 miles W. of Great Missenden; P.O.	Bartholomew
  PRESTWOOD	Buckinghamshire	Great Missenden parishes, Bucks. The hamlet lies 2 miles W by N of Great Missenden, and 4¼ N E of West	Imperial

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