We could not match "LOUGHTON" 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 17 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 "LOUGHTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BUCKHURST	Essex	Loughton parishes, Essex; on the Eastern Counties railway, adjacent to Epping forest, 9¾ miles NE of Bishopsgate, London. It has a station	Imperial
  BURRISNEFARNEY	Tipperary	Loughton, formerly the residence of T. Ryder Pepper, Esq., and now of Lieut.-General Lord Bloomfield, who is making extensive	Lewis:Ireland
  CHETTON	Shropshire	Loughton chapelry in Cleobury-Mortimer district. Post town, Bridgnorth. Acres, 4, 936. Real property, £6, 992. Pop., 590. Houses	Imperial
  CLEOBURY-MORTIMER	Shropshire	Loughton. Acres, 54, 640. Poor-rates, in 1862, £4, 614. Pop., in 1841, 8, 708; in 1861, 8, 304. Houses	Imperial
  EPPING	Essex	Loughton; has now a station on the Ongar railway; is irregularly built; comprises one long wide street; is a seat	Imperial
  ESSEX	Essex	Loughton, and will be prolonged to Dunmow; another line goes along all the west border, partly within Middlesex and Herts	Imperial
  GEORGE LANE	Essex	LANE , a railway station in the SW of Essex; on the London and Loughton railway, 4 miles NNE of Stratford.	Imperial
  High Beach	Essex	dist., pop. 502; vil., 2 miles N. of Loughton sta. and 3½ miles SE. of Waltham Abbey; P.O., called High Beech .	Bartholomew
  LAMBOURNE	Essex	Loughton r. station, and 5 NNW of Romford; is an ancient place, mentioned in Domesday book; and has a post	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Loughton, Low Leighton, Waltham-Abbey, Walthamstow, Wanstead, West Ham, and Woodford; and those in Herts are Aldenham, Bushey, Cheshunt, Chipping	Imperial
  Loughton	Essex	Loughton , small town and par. with ry. sta., Essex, in W. of co., on E. side of Epping Forest, 5 miles	Bartholomew
  Loughton	Shropshire	Loughton , township, Chetton par., Shropshire, 9 miles NE. of Ludlow, 1057 ac., pop. 84.	Bartholomew
  Loughton	Buckinghamshire	Loughton .-- par. and vil., Bucks, in NE. of co., on river Ouse, Similes SE. of Stony Stratford, 1536 ac., pop. 324; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LOUGHTON	Buckinghamshire	LOUGHTON , a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands on Wiatlingstreet and the river Ouse	Imperial
  LOUGHTON	Shropshire	LOUGHTON , a chapelry in Chetton parish, Salop; under Brown-Clee hill, 7 miles NW of Cleobury-Mortimer r. station, and 9 NE of Ludlow	Imperial
  LOUGHTON	Essex	LOUGHTON , a village and a parish in Epping district, Essex. The village stands on the E side of Epping forest	Imperial
  NEWPORT-PAGNELL	Buckinghamshire	Loughton, Bradwell, Stantonbury, Great Linford, Willen, Broughton, Moulsoe, North Crawley, Bow-Brickhill, Little Brickhill, Great Brickhill, and Newton-Longville, the township	Imperial

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