We could not match "THIRLESTANE" 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 13 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 "THIRLESTANE" (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 "THIRLESTANE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ettrick	Selkirkshire	Thirlestane Hill (1475), Ward Law (1951) and Craig Hill (1597) behind the church, Penniestone Knowe (1807), *Muckle Knees (1929), *Herman	Groome
  Gamescleuch	Selkirkshire	Thirlestane, Lord Napier's ancestor; but, according to tradition, was never occupied, Simon having been poisoned by his stepmother the night	Groome
  Inveresk	Midlothian	Thirlestane, under whose grandson, the infamous Duke of Lauderdale, they suffered much curtailment. With exception of the parts that had been	Groome
  Lauder	Berwickshire	Thirlestane Castle (anciently Lauder Fort), the seat of the Earl of Lauderdale, adjoins the town. Lauder formed one of the Haddington	Bartholomew
  Lauder	Berwickshire	Thirlestane Castle screens the whole of the NE side of these thoroughfares, and forms on that side the boundary of the burgh	Groome
  Musselburgh	Midlothian	Thirlestane, with whose descendants (the Earls and the Duke of Lauderdale) it remained till 1709, when it was finally purchased	Groome
  Sauchie	Stirlingshire	Thirlestane Castle.) He holds 6023 acres in Stirling and 4505 in Edinburgh shire, valued at £5809 and £14, 246 per annum	Groome
  Selkirkshire or Ettrick Forest	Selkirkshire	Thirlestane (Lord Napier and Ettrick), Torwoodlee, and Yair. The chief landowner in the county is the Duke of Buccleuch. According	Groome
  Thirlestane Castle	Berwickshire	Thirlestane Castle, the seat of the Earl of Lauderdale, in Lauder parish, Berwickshire, on the right bank of Leader Water	Groome
  Thirlestane Castle	Berwickshire	Thirlestane Castle .-- seat of the Earl of Lauderdale, Berwickshire, on Leader Water, in par. and near Lauder.	Bartholomew
  Thirlestane Castle	Selkirkshire	Thirlestane Castle, a modern mansion, the seat of Lord Napier and Ettrick, in Ettrick parish, Selkirkshire, beautifully situated, amid extensive	Groome
  Thirlestane Castle	Selkirkshire	Thirlestane Castle , seat of Lord Napier and Ettrick, Ettrick par., Selkirkshire, on Ettrick Water, 17 miles SW. of Selkirk; the ruin	Bartholomew
  Yarrow Water	Selkirkshire	Thirlestane, was treacherously slain by his brother-in-law, John Scott of Tushielaw: as he gaed up the Tinnies Bank	Groome

  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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