We could not match "NORTHMAVEN" 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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• 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 "NORTHMAVEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Burravoe	Shetland	Burravoe, a small bay in the NE of Northmaven parish, Shetland, 3 miles S of the northern entrance of Yell Sound.	Groome
  Burravoe	Shetland	Burravoe , small bay, in NE. of Northmaven par., Shetland, 3 miles S. of N. entrance of Yell Sound.	Bartholomew
  Colla Firth	Shetland	Colla Firth, a bay and a hamlet in Northmaven parish, Shetland.	Groome
  Delting	Shetland	Northmaven by a narrow neck of land, less than 100 feet broad, that separates the German from the Atlantic Ocean	Groome
  Doreholm	Shetland	Northmaven parish, Shetland, on the N side of St Magnus Bay, 1½ mile ESE of the south-western extremity	Groome
  Drongs	Shetland	Northmaven parish, Shetland, at the back of Hillswick Ness. Rising almost sheer from the water to a height of 100 feet	Groome
  Eagleshay or Egilshay	Shetland	Northmaven parish, Shetland, in Islesburgh cove, on the E of St Magnus Bay. It measures about 1½ mile both	Groome
  Hillswick	Shetland	Northmaven parish, Shetland. The village stands on the voe, 12 miles S by W of the northern extremity of the mainland	Groome
  Lamba	Shetland	Lamba, an island (¾ x ¼ mile) of Northmaven parish, Shetland, in Yell Sound, 1 3 / 8 mile ENE of Ollaberry.	Groome
  Northmaven	Shetland	Northmaven, a parish of Shetland, comprehending the northernmost part of Mainland, with a number of neighbouring islets, and containing Hollswick	Groome
  Ollaberry	Shetland	Northmaven parish, Shetland, at -the head of a small bay, 17 miles NNW of Voe, and 36 NNW of Lerwick	Groome
  Olna Firth	Shetland	Northmaven, Sandsting, and Walls, the quoad sacra parish of Whalsay, and the chapelries of Olnafirth, Lunna, Ollaberry, and Sandness. Pop. (1871) 12, 528, (1881) 11, 513, of whom	Groome
  Shetland	Shetland	Northmaven. Along the line of junction between these two groups, extending from Scalloway N by Tingwall Firth to Laxfirth Voe, the strata	Groome
  Sulem or Sullom Voe	Shetland	miles south-south-westward between Northmaven and Delting parishes, and varying in breadth between 3 furlongs and 2¾ miles.	Groome

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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