We could not match "MAXTON" 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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• 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 "MAXTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ancrum	Roxburghshire	Maxton, E by Crailing, SE by Jedburgh and Bedrule, SW by Minto, and W by Lilliesleaf and Bowden. Its length	Groome
  Cultoquhey	Perthshire	Maxtones since 1410 and earlier, the estate is now held by Jas. Maxtone Graham, Esq. (b. 1819; suc. 1846), the thirteenth	Groome
  Cultoquhey	Perthshire	miles NE. of Crieff, Perthshire; has been the seat of the Maxtone family since the beginning of the 15th century.	Bartholomew
  Littledean Tower	Roxburghshire	Maxton parish, Roxburghshire, on the right bank of the river Tweed, 1½ mile NE of Maxton village. Down to the first	Groome
  Littledean Tower	Roxburghshire	Littledean Tower , ruined fortalice, on the Tweed, Roxburghshire, in par. and 1½ mile NE. of Maxton.	Bartholomew
  Makerstoun	Roxburghshire	Maxton, and W by Mertoun. Its utmost length, from ENE to WSW, is 3 miles; its utmost breadth is 2 miles	Groome
  Maxton	Roxburghshire	Maxton, it contains the railway station of Rutherford, 2½ miles from Maxton. The Tweed curves 4 3 / 8 miles	Groome
  Maxton	Roxburghshire	Maxton , par., vil., and seat, with ry. sta., Roxburghshire, on S. side of river Tweed - par., 4422 ac., pop. 456; the vil. is 14 mile	Bartholomew
  Mertoun	Berwickshire	Maxton, though the point where it first touches and that where it quits the parish are only 5¼ miles	Groome
  Roxburgh	Roxburghshire	Maxton, and NW by Makerstoun. Projecting a long, narrow south-western wing, it has an utmost length from NE to SW of 7 3 / 8 miles	Groome
  Roxburghshire	Roxburghshire	Maxton, and Melrose. The heavy soil consists chiefly of clay or clay mixtures lying upon till or other retentive subsoils	Groome
  Rutherford	Roxburghshire	Rutherford , ry. sta., Maxton par., Roxburghshire, 6 miles SW. of Kelso.	Bartholomew
  Rutherford	Roxburghshire	Maxton parish, Roxburghshire, 7 furlongs SW of Rutherford station on the Kelso branch of the North British railway, this being	Groome
  Selkirk	Selkirkshire	Maxton, Melrose, Roberton, Selkirk, and Yarrow; and the quoad sacra parishes of Caddonfoot, Galashiels West Church, Heatherlie, and Ladhope. The Free	Groome
  St Boswells	Roxburghshire	Maxton and Ancrum, SW by Bowden, and NW by Bowden and Melrose. Its utmost length, from NE to SW, is 3 5 / 8 miles	Groome
  Tweed	Berwickshire Peebles Shire	Maxton, Merton, Makerstoun, Roxburgh, Kelso, Sprouston, Ednam, and Eccles. Except for 2 miles at the mouth, where it is entirely	Groome

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