We could not match "OSBALDESTON" 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 9 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "OSBALDESTON" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• 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 "OSBALDESTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BLACKBURN	Lancashire	Osbaldeston, Clayton-le-Dale, and Ramsgreave townships in Blackburn parish; Witton subdistrict, containing Witton, Pleasington, Livesey, and Tockholes townships in Blackburn	Imperial
  GATEFORTH	Yorkshire	Osbaldeston, Esq. Gate-forth Common is a meet for the Bramham Moor hunt. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese	Imperial
  GREENWICH	Kent	Osbaldeston; and amounts to upwards of £130, 000 a year. The number of in-pensioners is about 2, 700, attended	Imperial
  HUNMANBY	Yorkshire	Osbaldestons, and two memorial windows to the Mitfords.-The township comprises 7, 200 acres of land, and 222 of water	Imperial
  HUTTON-BUSHELL	Yorkshire	Osbaldestons. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school.—The sub-district contains also three other parishes, and part	Imperial
  LEYLAND	Lancashire	Osbaldeston, and have an endowed income of £118. The total yearly value of charities is about £.600.-The hundred	Imperial
  MELLOR	Lancashire	contains also the townships of Balderstone, Osbaldeston, and Clayton-in-le-Dale. Acres, 6,227. Pop., 2,863. Houses, 577.	Imperial
  Osbaldeston	Lancashire	Osbaldeston , township, in par. and 4 miles NW. of Blackburn, NE. Lancashire, 1084 ac., pop. 154.	Bartholomew
  OSBALDESTON	Lancashire	OSBALDESTON , a township in Blackburn parish, Lancashire; near the river Ribble, 4¼ miles N W by N of Blackburn	Imperial

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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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