You searched for "SHIELDAIG" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 11 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 "SHIELDAIG" (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 "SHIELDAIG":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Applecross		Shieldaig; the remainder forms another quoad sacra parish in the presbytery of Lochcarron and synod of Glenelg, its minister's income	Groome
  Damph		Shieldaig. Lying among high mountains, it measures 3½ miles. in length by ½ mile in width; abounds in trout	Groome
  Damph, or Damh		Damph, or Damh , loch, W. Ross-shire, 3 miles E. of Shieldaig.	Bartholomew
  Flowerdale		seat, Gairloch, W. Ross-shire, at head of Gair Loch; Flowerdale, Kinlochewe, and Shieldaig Deer Forest embraces 42,750 ac.	Bartholomew
  Jeantown or Lochcarron		Shieldaig. Consisting chiefly of a straggling row of poor dwellings, nearly a mile in length, but containing a few pretty	Groome
  Lochcarron		Shieldaig parliamentary parish, Lochcarron is the seat of a presbytery in the synod of Glenelg; the living is worth £222. The parish	Groome
  Ross-shire		Shieldaig receives the Shieldaig from Glen Shieldaig at the upper end, and the Abhuinn Dubh from Loch Lundie on the SW. In the rest	Groome
  Shieldaig		Shieldaig , vil., Applecross par., and quoad sacra par., partly also in Lochcarron par., Ross and Cromarty - quoad sacra par., pop. 1332; vil., on Loch	Bartholomew
  Shieldaig		Shieldaig stands on the E side of Loch Shieldaig, 6 miles NNW of Jeantown. Loch Shieldaig is a southward offshoot	Groome
  Torridon, Loch		large sea-loch, Ross and Cromarty, between Gairloch and Applecross pars.; consists of Loch Torridon, Loch Shieldaig, and Upper Loch Torridon.	Bartholomew
  Torridon, Loch		Shieldaig, and then 6 miles eastward to the foot of Glen Torridon. It measures 4½ miles across the entrance	Groome

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