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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 "SOUTHEND ON SEA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Arran	Buteshire	Arran (Gael. ` lofty isle '), an island of Buteshire, forming the southern and larger portion of that county. It lies, like	Groome
  Campbeltown	Argyll	sea. From it the surface rises northward to a hill near Aucha Lochy (710 feet), Ballivulline Hill (600), Ranachan Hill (706), Skeroblin Cruach (640), Easach Hill (1064), and Sgreadan Hill (1298); southward to Beinn Ghuilean (1154), Ballimenach Hill (379), Achinhoan Hill (980), Arinarach Hill (1031), Tirfirgus Hill (853), Skerry Fell Fad (781), The Slate (1263), and, on the Southend	Groome
  CLIFF-TOWN	Essex	Southend, adjacent to the Southend railway, 3½ miles WNW of Shoeburyness. The following notice of it is given in the Building News of 14 Feb. 1862:-' 'The houses are built of white brick, with freestone dressings. They are constructed in terraces laid out on the summit of the cliff, connected diagonally at intervals in such a way that those lying back get sea	Imperial
  Dunaverty	Argyll	Southend parish, Argyllshire, on a small bay of its own name, 5 miles E by N of the Mull of Kintyre, and 10½ SSW of Campbeltown. Crowning a steep pyramidal peninsula (95 feet), with cliff descending sheer to the sea	Groome
  ESSEX	Essex	ESSEX , a maritime county of England; bounded, on the N, by Cambridge and Suffolk; on the E, by the German	Imperial
  Greenock	Renfrewshire	Greenock, a parish of NW Renfrewshire, bounded N by the Firth of Clyde, E by Port Glasgow, S by Kilmalcolm	Groome
  Hebrides or Western Islands	Scotland	sea-shore or possess boats. They let the ardent east country fisherman carry off the finest hauls of herring. Their work stops when their mouths are filled, and yet they are ill content to be poor. All this, and more than this, is truth, and sad truth.' The inhabitants of the outer islands are very much isolated; for though steamers sail regularly from the Clyde and from Oban to all the larger islands, the internal communication, except in Lewis and Harris, is poor, and the arms of the lochs difficult to cross. People, when they meet, talk	Groome
  Kintyre	Argyll	sea at high water; and shows a fixed light, visible at the distance of 24 nautical miles. The presbytery of Kintyre, in the synod of Argyll, comprehends the quoad civilia parishes of Campbeltown, Gigha, Kilbride, Kilcalmonell, Killean, Kilmorie, Saddell, and Southend	Groome
  LEIGH	Essex	Southend railway, opposite Canvey Point, 3 miles W of Southend, and 4 SW by S of Rochford; is an ancient place, mentioned in Domesday book; consists chiefly of one street; carries on a small coasting trade, and an important oyster, shrimp, musse1, and periwinkle fishery; and has a post office, ‡ under Chelmsford, a railway station, a custom-house, a church, a Wesleyan chapel, and national schools. The oyster fishery is conducted chiefly by the collecting of oysters on distant coasts, particularly the N coast of France, and by laying them down to grow and fatten on the sea	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Southend, from Hungerford and the Temple daily, calling at intermediate places. Sea-steamers sail to Aberdeen, usually twice a week	Imperial
  MILTON	Essex	Southend. Real property, £7,650; of which £570 are in fisheries. It was anciently a separate parish; but ceased to be so in consequence of part of it being swallowed up by the sea	Imperial
  PRITTLEWELL	Essex	sea-mark. The p. curacy of Southend is a separate benefice. There are an endowed school with £23 a year	Imperial
  Rochford	Essex	Southend on Sea and 16½ miles SE. of Chelmsford, 1867 ac., pop. 1675; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; Rochford Hall	Bartholomew
  Sanda	Argyll	Southend, Argyllshire. It lies at the W side of the entrance of the Firth of Clyde, 1¾ mile SSE of the nearest part of the peninsula of Kintyre, 6 5 / 8 miles ESE of the Mull of Kintyre, and 10 S by E of Campbeltown. It has an utmost length and breadth of 1¼ and ¾ mile; it consists of sandstone rock; and has a tumulated surface, with an extreme altitude of 405 feet above sea	Groome
  Southend	Argyll	Southend, a village and a parish at the southern extremity of the peninsula of Kintyre, Argyllshire. The village stands 9½ miles S by W of Campbeltown, under which it has a post and telegraph office. The parish, comprising the ancient parishes of Kilcolmkill and Kilblane, includes the island of Sanda and the adjacent islets, and has been called Southend since the Reformation. It is bounded N by the parish of Campbeltown, and on all other sides by the sea	Groome
  Southend	Essex	Southend .-- seaport and watering-place with ry. sta. (Southend on Sea), Essex, on estuary of river Thames, opposite Sheerness, 3 miles	Bartholomew
  SOUTHEND	Essex	Southend railway, 3½ miles WNW of Shoeburyness and 3½ S by E of Rochford; dates from a period not earlier than 1800; attracted notice, as a suitable watering-place, from a visit of Queen Caroline and Princess Charlotte in 1804; consists of good streets, with many commodious residences; includes Cliff-Town, which has been separately noticed; carries on a considerable coasting trade; communicates much with London, both by railway and by steamers; communicates also, by steamers, with Gravesend, Rochester, and Sheerness; and has a head post-office,‡ a r. station with telegraph, excellent hotels, good sea	Imperial
  Southend on Sea	Essex	Southend on Sea , ry. sta., Essex. See SOUTHEND.	Bartholomew

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