You searched for "THORNTON LE STREET" 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 12 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 "THORNTON LE STREET" (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 "THORNTON LE STREET":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BOSTON	Lincolnshire	BOSTON , a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district in Lincoln. The town stands on the river Witham, 5	Imperial
  DUNGARVAN	Waterford	DUNGARVAN , a sea-port, borough, market and post-town, and a parish, in the barony of DECIES-WITHOUT-DRUM, county	Lewis:Ireland
  HORNCASTLE	Lincolnshire	HORNCASTLE , a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a soke, in Lincoln. The town stands at the	Imperial
  HULL, or KINGSTON-UPON-HULL	Yorkshire	HULL , or KINGSTON-UPON-HULL, a large seaporttown, in E. R. Yorkshire; at the influx of the river Hull to	Imperial
  Kilvington, North	Yorkshire	Thornton le Street par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles NE. of Thirsk, 935 ac., pop. 87; contains the seat of Kilvington	Bartholomew
  LANCASTER	Lancashire	LANCASTER , a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Lancashire. The town stands on the	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	LINCOLN , a city and a district in Lincolnshire, and a diocese partly also in Notts. The city stands on Ermine	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	LINCOLNSHIRE , or LINCOLN, a maritime county on the E of England. It is bounded on the N and NE, by	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , a town, four parishes, and a district, in Northumberland. The town stands on the river Tyne at	Imperial
  POCKLINGTON	Yorkshire	streets; and has a post-office‡ under York, a railway station, two banking offices, a good inn, a public hall, a church, threedissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a freegrammar school, a national school, a workhouse, and charities £186. The church is chiefly early English; consists of nave, aisles, transepts, and chancel, with Npinnacle tower; and contains several interesting monuments. The churchyard contains an old cross, exhumed and restored in 1835. The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1866. The Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1863: and is in the decorated English style, with apsidal chancel	Imperial
  Thornton le Street	Yorkshire	Thornton le Street , par., township, and seat, North-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles N. of Thirsk - par., 2324 ac., pop. 225; township	Bartholomew
  THORNTON-LE-STREET	Yorkshire	THORNTON-LE-STREET , a parish, with two townships, in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles N by W of Thirsk	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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