We could not match "MELMERBY" 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 18 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  MELMERBY	Manor	COVERHAM CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)
  MELMERBY	Manor	WATH AP/Tn/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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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 "MELMERBY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CARLISLE	Cumberland	Melmerby, Ousby, and Great Salkeld; the vicarages of Addingham, Ainstable, Barton, Edenhall, Kirkland, Kirkoswald, Lazonby, and Penrith; and the p. curacies	Imperial
  COVERHAM	Yorkshire	Melmerby; and its Post towns are Middleham and Carlton, both under Bedale. Acres, 21, 726. Real property, £9, 270. Pop., 1, 191. Houses	Imperial
  HAWES	Yorkshire	Melmerby, 41 miles long, was authorised in 1865. The town is a tourists' centre, and has a post office ‡ under	Imperial
  MASHAM	Yorkshire	Melmerby railway which was authorized in 1865, and 6 miles SW by W of Bedale town and r. station; is a well	Imperial
  Melmerby	Yorkshire	Melmerby , township and ry. sta., Wath par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles NE. of Ripon, 1138 ac., pop. 305; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  Melmerby	Cumberland	Melmerby .-- par. and vil., Cumberland, 8½ miles NE. of Penrith, 5362 ac., pop. 286; P.O.; Melmerby Fell , 2330 ft. high	Bartholomew
  Melmerby	Yorkshire	Melmerby , township, Coverham par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles SW. of Leyburn, 1212 ac., pop. 110.	Bartholomew
  MELMERBY	Cumberland	Melmerby Hall is an ancient and chief residence. About 2,310 acres an unenclosed bill, or common. Melmerby fell has an altitude	Imperial
  MELMERBY	Yorkshire	MELMERBY , a township in Coverham parish. N. R. Yorkshire; near the river Cover, 4¼ miles SW of Leyburn r. station	Imperial
  MELMERBY		MELMERBY , a township in Coverham parish-N. R. portions, and was repaired in 1858. There are an Independent chapel and a national	Imperial
  MELMERBY	Yorkshire	MELMERBY , a township in Wath parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the Northeastern railway, at the junction of the branch to Northallerton	Imperial
  NEWBY-WISKE	Yorkshire	Melmerby and Northallerton branch of the North eastern railway, 4 miles S by W of Northallerton. It has a station	Imperial
  OUSBY, or Ulfsby	Cumberland	Melmerby, under Penrith. Acres, 6,000. Real property, £2, 623. Pop., 294. Houses, 58. The property is divided among	Imperial
  PENRITH	Cumberland	Melmerby, Ousby, Langwathby, Edenhall, Dacre, and Newton-Regny, and the township of Plumpton-Wall. Acres, 49, 291. Pop., 11, 532. Houses	Imperial
  TANFIELD (West)	Yorkshire	Melmerby-Junction r. station, and 6 NW by N of Ripon. It has a post-office under Bedale. Acres, 3,139. Real	Imperial
  WATH	Yorkshire	Melmerby-Junction r. station, and 4 miles N by E of Ripon; and has a post-office under Ripon. Acres	Imperial

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