We could not match "INVERCHAOLAIN" 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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• 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 "INVERCHAOLAIN" (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 "INVERCHAOLAIN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Colintraive	Argyll Buteshire	Inverchaolain parish, Argyllshire, on the NE side of the Kyles of Bute, 7¼ miles by water NW by N of Rothesay	Groome
  Cowal	Argyll	Inverchaolain, Kilmodan, and Kilfinan, and the quoad sacra parishes of Ardentinny, Inellan, Kirn, and Sandbank, with the chapelries of Strone	Groome
  Dheirrig or Eilean Dearg	Argyll Buteshire	Inverchaolain parish, Argyllshire, the furthest of a small group in the mouth of Loch Riddon, at the elbow of the Kyles	Groome
  Dunoon	Argyll	Inverchaolain, and NW by Kilmodan. Its utmost length is 16¼ miles from N to S, viz., from Whistlefield inn to Toward	Groome
  Inverchaolain	Argyll	Inverchaolain , par., in S. of Cowall dist., Argyllshire, 29,312 ac., pop. 407; the church is on the E. side	Bartholomew
  Inverchaolain	Argyll	Inverchaolain, a parish in the S of Cowal district, Argyllshire. It comprises Loch Striven, and contains the village of Colintraive	Groome
  Kilmodan	Argyll	Inverchaolain, S by Inverchaolain and Loch Riddon, SW and W by Kilfinan, and NW by Stralachlan. Its utmost length, from	Groome
  Knockdhu (or Knockdow)	Argyll	Knockdhu (or Knockdow ), seat, Inverchaolain par., Cowall, Argyllshire, on Ardyne Burn, 2 miles NW. of Toward.	Bartholomew
  Knockdow or Knockdhu	Argyll	Inverchaolain parish, Argyllshire, near the right bank of Ardyne Burn, 2 miles NNW of Toward. It is the seat of James	Groome
  Riddon, Loch	Argyll	Inverchaolain parishes, Argyllshire. Opening from the most northerly part of the Kyles of Bute, and penetrating 3¾ miles northward	Groome
  South Hall	Argyll Buteshire	Inverchaolain parish, Argyllshire, on a picturesque reach of the Kyles of Bute, 5 miles NNW of Rothesay. Its owner, Lieut.Col	Groome
  South Hall	Argyll	South Hall , seat, Inverchaolain par., Argyllshire, on the Kyles of Bute, 5 miles NW. of Rothesay.	Bartholomew
  Strachur and Stralachlan	Argyll	Inverchaolain in 1650. It is bounded NE and E by Lochgoilhead, S by Kilmun, Kilmodan, and Kilfinan, and NW by Loch	Groome
  Striven, Loch	Argyll	Loch , an arm of the Firth of Clyde, Inverchaolain par., Argyllshire; extends 9 miles NW. from the E. entrance to the Kyles of Bute.	Bartholomew

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