We could not match "OVERSTONE" 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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• 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 "OVERSTONE" (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 "OVERSTONE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ABINGTON	Northamptonshire	Value, £200.* Patron, Lord Overstone. The church is early English, and contains tombs of the Berhards. Charities, £20.	Imperial
  ASTON-ABBOTS	Buckinghamshire	Value, £143.* Patron, Lord Overstone. The church is good; and there are two dissenting chapels and a national school.	Imperial
  BRIXWORTH	Northamptonshire	Overstone, Boughton, Pitsford, Brington, Harlestone Church-Brampton, and Chapel-Brampton, and the extra-parochial tract of Althorp. Acres, 59,926. Poorrates	Imperial
  FOTHERINGHAY	Northamptonshire	Overstone's. A castle here was built, in the time of William the Conqueror, by Simon St. Liz, second Earl	Imperial
  GROVE	Buckinghamshire	among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £73. Patron, Lord Overstone. The church is good.	Imperial
  LODDINGTON	Northamptonshire	Overstone. The Hall, or old manor-house, is a beautiful Tudor edifice. The living is a rectory in the diocese	Imperial
  MIDLOE	Huntingdonshire	property, £849. Pop., 47. Houses, 7. About two-thirds belong to J. Duberly, Esq., and the rest to Lord Overstone.	Imperial
  NORTHAMPTON	Northamptonshire	Overstone; of St. Giles, Simeon's Trustees; of St. Sepulchre, the Rev. W. Butlin; of St. Andrew and St. Katherine	Imperial
  NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, or Northampton	Northamptonshire	Overstone Park, Peterborough Palace, Watford Court, Ashby Lodge, Courteenhall Hall, East Carlton Hall, Horton Hall, Milton House, Parkview, Stanford Hall	Imperial
  Overstone	Northamptonshire	Overstone , par., in co. and 4½ miles NE. of Northampton, 1940 ac., pop. 181; P.O., called Overstone Road; Overstone	Bartholomew
  OVERSTONE	Northamptonshire	Overstone mounted rifles. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £300.* Patron, Lord Overstone. The church	Imperial
  PAXTON (Little)	Huntingdonshire	Overstone. Paxton Park is the seat of Sir W. Booth, Bart.; and Paxton Hall, of R. A. Reynolds, Esq. There	Imperial
  PIDDINGTON	Northamptonshire	Overstone. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Horton, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church	Imperial
  PITCHLEY, or Pytchley	Northamptonshire	Overstone. P. Hallwas a fine old seat of the Knightleys; became the head-quarters of the P. hunt, afterwards removed	Imperial
  SOUTHOE	Huntingdonshire	Overstone. The living is a vicarage, united with Hail-Weston, in the diocese of Ely. Value, £288.* Patron, the Rev. J. R. Moorsom	Imperial
  SYWELL	Northamptonshire	Overstone; and the village was rebuilt by him in 1861. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough	Imperial
  WING	Buckinghamshire	Overstone; but the mansion of it has been taken down. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford	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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