We could not match "BROOMY" 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 14 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 "BROOMY" (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 "BROOMY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Biggar	Lanarkshire	Broomy Law at its north-eastern to the Clyde at its south-western angle, of 6¼ miles; a varying	Groome
  Broomy	Hampshire	Broomy , par., S. Hants, on river Avon, 2 miles N. of Ringwood, 4729 ac., pop. 127.	Bartholomew
  BROOMY-WALK	Hampshire	BROOMY-WALK , an extra-parochial tract in Harbridge and Ellingham parishes, Hants; in the New Forest, on the river Avon	Imperial
  Glendevon	Perthshire	broomy braes and swelling pastoral hills; remotely, toward the boundaries, by summit-lines of the Ochils. Opposite what is called	Groome
  Glengaber Burn	Peebles Shire	Broomy Law (1750); and it retains faint traces of ancient searches for gold, said to have not been altogether unsuccessful	Groome
  Holly Hatch	Hampshire	Holly Hatch , place, Broomy par., S. Hants, in New Forest.	Bartholomew
  LINFORD	Hampshire	LINFORD , an extra-parochial tract in Ringwood district, Hants; forming part of Broomy-Walk, in the New Forest.	Imperial
  LINWOOD	Hampshire	LINWOOD , an extra-parochial tract in Ringwood district, Hants; forming part of Broomy Wak in New Forest. Acres, 780. Pop., 14.	Imperial
  Lyne and Megget	Peebles Shire	Broomy Law (1750), *Deer Law (2065), *Black Law (2285), Clockmore (2100), *Norman Law (2408), and *Broad Law (2723), where asterisks	Groome
  Peeblesshire or Tweeddale	Peebles Shire	Broomy Law (1399), Shaw Hill (1121), and Mendick Hill (1480), a beautifully rounded summit, lying to the S of the Pentlands	Groome
  RINGWOOD	Hampshire	Broomy-walk, and 7, 170 of Burley-walk, including Burley ville, in New Forest. Total acres, 33, 300. Poor-rates	Imperial
  Selkirk	Selkirkshire	Broomy Law (1519), Three Brethren (1523), and Fastheugh Hill (1645). The prevailing rocks are greywacke, greywacke slate, and clay slate	Groome
  SHOBLEY	Hampshire	SHOBLEY , an extra-parochial tract in Ringwood district, Hants; forming part of Broomy walk in the New Forest.	Imperial
  Skirling	Peebles Shire	Broomy Law near the northern extremity of the parish. The rocks are chiefly Silurian, and the soil is mostly light	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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.