We could not match "ARDGLASS" 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 16 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 "ARDGLASS" (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 "ARDGLASS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ardglass	Down	Ardglass , par., town, and seat, SE. co. Down, 6 miles SE. of Downpatrick ry. sta. and 140 miles from Dublin	Bartholomew
  ARDGLASS	Down	ARDGLASS , a sea-port, post-town, and parish, in the barony of LECALE, county of DOWN, and province of ULSTER	Lewis:Ireland
  BALLEE, or BALLY	Down	Ardglass; containing 2598 inhabitants. It formerly comprised, according to the Ordnance survey, 6427 ¾ statute acres, of which 6282 acres	Lewis:Ireland
  Ballyhornan	Down	Ballyhornan , fishing vil., 4 miles NE. of Ardglass, E. co. Down, pop. 116.	Bartholomew
  BALLYKINDLAR	Down	Ardglass, and comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 2038 ½ statute acres, the property of the Marquess of Downshire. A considerable	Lewis:Ireland
  BALLYPHILIP	Down	Ardglass united by charter in the 7th of James I., which four parishes constitute the union of Ballyphilip and the corps	Lewis:Ireland
  DOWN	Down	Ardglass, and Killough; the sea-port of Newcastle, which has a penny-post; the post-towns of Clough, Comber, Dromaragh	Lewis:Ireland
  DOWNPATRICK	Down	Ardglass, who was interred in 1668. The cathedral service is not performed, the building being used rather as a second	Lewis:Ireland
  DUNDRUM	Down	Ardglass; it afterwards became the property of Viscount Blundell, from whom it descended to the Marquess of Downshire, its present	Lewis:Ireland
  DUNSFORD, or DUNSPORT	Down	Ardglass, and contain.ing two chapels, of which the one for Dunsford is at Ballydock. About 350 children are educated in four	Lewis:Ireland
  IRISH SEA		Ardglass, and Lough Strangford, on the W; and at Point of Ayr, Douglas bay, Calf of Man, and Peel harbour	Imperial
  MAN, or ISLE of MAN	the Isle of Man	Ardglass, in Ireland, and 45 NNE of Holyhead, in Anglesey; and the central point of its E coast, at Peel	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE	Down	Ardglass, St. John's Point or Killough, Leestone, and Cranfield, comprising a force of one resident inspector, seven officers, and 66 men. A penny	Lewis:Ireland
  RATHASPICK	Westmeath	Ardglass, the residence of Major A. P. Bond; Rockfield, of M. Crawford, Esq.; Ardglass Cottage, of J. Atkinson, Esq.; and Newpark	Lewis:Ireland
  RATHMULLEN	Down	Ardglass. This point is situated in lat. 54" 27' 40" (N.), and lon. 5" 24' 30" (W.); and a coast	Lewis:Ireland
  Sheepland	Down	Sheepland , small creek, 2 miles NE. of Ardglass, SE. co. Down.	Bartholomew

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• 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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