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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  UPPER NORWOOD LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CROYDON MB/CB (Local Government District)

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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 "UPPER NORWOOD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Upper Hardres, Ickham, and Wickhambreux; the vicarages of Ash, Boughton-Aluph, Chilham, Godmersham, Weld, Litthebourne, Patrixbourne, Bridge, Preston-next-Wingham, Waltham, and Petham; the p. curacies of Staple, Trinity-Ash, Barham, Moldash, Challock, Goodnestone-next-Wingham, Stelling, Nunington, Wingham, Womenswold, and Wye; and the donative of Stodmarsh. The deanery of Dover includes the rectories of St. James-Dover, Charlton-near-Dover, Cheriton, Ewell-Temple, and Hawkinge; the vicarages of Alkham, Newington, Folkstone, Hougham, Lydden, St. Margarets-at-Cliffe, River, and Westcliffe; and the p. curacies of Capel-le-Fern, Beauxfield, Buckland-near-Dover, St. Mary-Dover, Trinity-Dover, Christ-church	Imperial
  Cummertrees	Dumfries Shire	Upper Mains, 242 near Norwood, and 350 on Repentance Hill, from which again it descends rather rapidly to less than	Groome
  GLASTONBURY	Somerset	GLASTONBURY , a town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wells district, Somerset. The town stands on a peninsular tract	Imperial
  HAYES, or HEESE	Middlesex	upper classes. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London. Value, £700.* Patron, the Rev. W. Randall. The church is early English, with portions of Norman; and contains sedilia, a curious font, and some brasses and monuments. The chapelries of Norwood	Imperial
  LAMBETH	Surrey	LAMBETH , a metropolitan suburb, a parish, a district, and a borough, in Surrey. The suburb lies on the Thames, opposite	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	upper range of five round-headed windows. The United Presbyterian church at the junction of Breck-road and Queen's-road, Everton, was built in 1865; is in the later English style, with a nave about 74 feet by 66, and a transept of 15 feet by 19; and has a tower and spire 133 feet high. The United Presbyterian church, in Prince's-road, was built in 1866, chiefly of brick; consists of nave and transepts, with a tower 135 feet high; and has, behind it, a large lecture-hall. The Irish Presbyterian church, in Islington, is a stuccoed	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  Norwood	Surrey	Norwood, Lower Norwood, South Norwood , and Upper Norwood - Norwood, with ry. sta. (Norwood Junction), pop. 5185; Lower Norwood, with ry. sta., pop. 8916; South	Bartholomew
  NORWOOD	Surrey	Norwood hotel, stands very pleasantlyon the crown of a hill, near the Crystal palace. The Norwood or South Metropolitan cemetery lies in Lower Norwood, occupies about 40 acres, and displays much taste and beauty. Two potteries, for the manufacture of red earthenware, are at Lower Norwood and South Norwood. Three chapelries, called Norwood, St. Luke, Norwood-All Saints, and Norwood, St. Mark, were formed respectively in 1824 in Lower Norwood, in 1845 in Upper	Imperial
  NORWOOD-ALL SAINTS	Surrey	NORWOOD-ALL SAINTS , a chapelry in Croydon parish, Surrey; around Upper Norwood village, and near Gipsy Hill and Crystal Palace	Imperial
  Norwood, Upper	Surrey	Norwood, Upper , eccl. dist. (ry. sta. Gipsy Hill), Croydon par., Surrey, pop. 2508. See NORWOOD.	Bartholomew
  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE or Notts	Nottinghamshire	NOTTINGHAMSHIRE or Notts , a midland county; bounded, on the N W, by Yorkshire; on the N E and the E	Imperial
  Upper Norwood	Surrey	Upper Norwood , eccl. dist. (ry. sta. Gipsy Hill), Croydon par., Surrey, 8¼ miles S. of London Bridge, pop. 2508. See NORWOOD	Bartholomew

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