We could not match "GREENHITHE" 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 16 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  GREENHITHE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	SWANSCOMBE UD (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 "GREENHITHE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CLEMENT'S REACH (St.), or Fidler's Reach	Kent	CLEMENT'S REACH (St.) , or Fidler's Reach, a bend of the Thames, 1½ mile long, below Greenhithe.	Imperial
  COBHAM TERRACE	Kent	TERRACE , a locality ½ a mile from Greenhithe, and 3 from Dartford, in Kent; with a post office under Dartford.	Imperial
  Fiddler's Reach	Kent	Fiddler's Reach , reach of river Thames, W. Kent, between Greenhithe and Northfleet.	Bartholomew
  Greenhithe	Kent	Greenhithe , eccl. dist. and vil. with ry. sta., Swanscombe and Stone-near-Dartford pars., W. Kent -- dist., pop. 1870; vil., on river	Bartholomew
  GREENHITHE	Kent	GREENHITHE , a hamlet in Swanscombe parish, and a chapelry in Swanscombe and Stone-near-Dartford parishes, Kent. The hamlet lies	Imperial
  Hornscross	Kent	Hornscross , hamlet, on N. border of W. Kent, 1 m. W. of Greenhithe; P.O.	Bartholomew
  HORNS-CROSS	Kent	CROSS , a hamlet on the N border of Kent; 1 mile W of Greenhithe. It has a post office under Dartford.	Imperial
  HYTHE		HYTHE , a topographical name, signifying " a haven '' or "a port, " and used both alone and in composition, as in Rotherhithe, Greenhithe.	Imperial
  Ingress Abbey	Kent	Ingress Abbey , seat, on river Thames, W. Kent, near Greenhithe; was built of stones from Old London Bridge.	Bartholomew
  INGRESS ABBEY	Kent	Greenhithe. The estate around it belonged to Dartford nunnery; was formerly called Incegrice; passed from its monastic possessors to the Carmichaels	Imperial
  LONG REACH	Kent	Greenhithe, between the Dartford and the West Thurrock marshes. It has a depth of from 5 to 6 fathoms. The measured	Imperial
  St Clement's Reach	Kent	St Clement's Reach , bend of the Thames, between Greenhithe and Grays Thurrock; is 1½ mile long.	Bartholomew
  STONE-near-DARTFORD	Kent	Greenhithe r. station, and 2 E by N of Dartford. It has a post-office under Dartford. Acres, 3,305; of which	Imperial
  Swanscombe	Kent	Greenhithe eccl. dist.), 2140 ac. and 412 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 4541; vil., 4 miles E. of Dartford; P.O.	Bartholomew
  SWANSCOMBE	Kent	Greenhithe and Northfleet r. stations, 5 miles E of Dartford. It contains Greenhithe, and has a post-office under Dartford	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.



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