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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  KINGSLEY LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	KETTERING MB/UD (Local Government District)
  KINGSLEY LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	NORTHAMPTON CB/MB (Local Government District)

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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 "KINGSLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BINSTEAD, or Binsted	Hampshire	Kingsley, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church is ancient	Imperial
  CHEADLE	Staffordshire	Kingsley, Cheddleton, and part of Checkley; and the sub-district of Dilhorne, containing the parishes of Dilhorne, Caverswall, and Draycott	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Kingsley, Norley, Lachford, Crosstown, Toft, Lymm-with-Warburton, Bollington, High Legh, High Leigh, Marthall, Over Tabley, Aston-by-Sutton, Daresbury	Imperial
  FARNBOROUGH	Hampshire Surrey	Kingsley, and Bramshott, all in Hants. Acres, 39, 571. Poor-rates in 1862, £4, 651. Pop. in 1851, 7, 839; in 1861, 14, 318. Houses	Imperial
  FRODSHAM	Cheshire	Kingsley, and Norley. Acres, 14, 288; of which 945 are water. Real property, £29, 889; of which £65 are in quarries	Imperial
  HEADLEY	Hampshire	also the parishes of Kingsley and Bramshott; and is a poor law incorporation under Gilbert's act. Pop., 3, 128.	Imperial
  Kingsley	Cheshire	Kingsley .-- township and vil., in par. and 3 miles SE. of Frodsham, Cheshire, 2705 ac., pop. 1207; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Kingsley	Staffordshire	Kingsley , par. and vil., Staffordshire, 2½ miles NE. of Cheadle, 4769 ac., pop. 1832; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Kingsley	Hampshire	Kingsley , par. and vil., Hants, in NE. of co., 4 miles SE. of Alton, 1801 ac., pop. 458; P.O.	Bartholomew
  KINGSLEY	Hampshire	KINGSLEY , a village and a parish in the district of Farnborough and county of Hants. The village stands 4¼ miles	Imperial
  KINGSLEY	Cheshire	KINGSLEY , a village, a township, and a chapelry in Frodsham parish, Cheshire. The village stands near Delamere forest, 3 miles	Imperial
  KINGSLEY	Staffordshire	KINGSLEY , a village and a parish in Cheadle district, Stafford. The village occupies a gentle eminence adjacent to the river	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Kingsley; the vicarages of Alton, Caverswell, and Dilhorne; and the p. curacies of Bradley-le-Moors, Cotton, Denstone, Forsbrooke, Finchey	Imperial
  MAIDSTONE	Kent	Kingsley, and was built in 1858, and greatly altered in 1869St. stephen's church stands in Tovil township, about a mile	Imperial
  NORTHAM	Devon	Kingsley's well-known work of that name is laid chiefly in the parish; and, in 1867, had already a hotel	Imperial
  Oakamoor (or Oakmoor)	Staffordshire	dist. and vil. with ry. sta., Alton, Cheadle, and Kingsley pars., Staffordshire - dist., pop. 577; vil., 94 miles SE. of Leek; P.O.	Bartholomew
  OULTON (Low)	Cheshire	Kingsleys and to Richard de Odleton; was long held by the Oultons, descendants of Richard de Odleton; passed, by marriage	Imperial
  Tean	Staffordshire	Staffordshire; rises near Kingsley, and flows 15 miles S. past Cheadle, and SE. past Checkley, to the Dove near Uttoxeter.	Bartholomew
  TEAN (The)	Staffordshire	near Kingsley; and running about 15 miles southward past Cheadle, and south-eastward past Checkley, to the Dove near Uttoxeter.	Imperial
  WHISTON	Staffordshire	Kingsley parish, Stafford; 4 miles NE of Cheadle. It has a post-office under Stafford. Real property, £2,536; of which	Imperial

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