We could not match "CANN" 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 15 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 "CANN" (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 "CANN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Cann	Dorset	Cann , par., NE. Dorset, on border of co. and 1¼ mile SE. of Shaftesbury, pop. 560.	Bartholomew
  Cann Hall	Essex	Cann Hall , hamlet, near Forest Gate ry. sta., S. Essex, and 5 miles NE. of London.	Bartholomew
  CANN-HALL	Essex	CANN-HALL , a locality adjacent to Epping forest, Essex; ½ a mile N by W of Forest Gate r. station	Imperial
  Cann Office	Montgomeryshire	Cann Office , vil., Llangadfan par., mid. Montgomeryshire, 6½ miles NW. of Llanfair; P.O.	Bartholomew
  CANN-OFFICE	Montgomeryshire	CANN-OFFICE , a village in Llangadfan parish, Montgomery; 6½ miles WNW of Llanfair. It occupies the site of a camp	Imperial
  CANN, or Shaston-St. Rumbold	Dorset	CANN , or Shaston-St. Rumbold, a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset; on the verge of the county, 1¼ mile	Imperial
  Cann Quarry	Devon	Cann Quarry , slate quarry, S. Devon, 4 miles NE. of Plymouth.	Bartholomew
  CANN QUARRY	Devon	CANN QUARRY , an excavation in dark blue slate, 4¼ miles NNE of Plymouth, in Devon. It is finely overhung	Imperial
  Chelmsford	Essex	Cann, and has communication by the river with Maldon and the sea 11 m. E. C. has considerable trade in agricultural	Bartholomew
  CHELMSFORD	Essex	Cann; and a viaduct of 18 brick arches, each 30 feet in span, takes the railway over the Cann. The Shire	Imperial
  Claremont Park	Surrey	property of Queen Victoria, and the residence of her son Leopold, Duke of Albany, who died at Cannes, March 1884.	Bartholomew
  John Cann's Rocks	Devon	John Cann's Rocks , near Bovey Heathfield, Devon; famed for the scenery.	Bartholomew
  Llangadfan	Montgomeryshire	miles NW. of Llanfair and 10 miles SW. of Llanfyllin, 16,929 ac., pop. 923; contains CANN OFFICE, vil.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LLANGADFAN	Montgomeryshire	Cann Office, under Welshpool. Acres, 16,929. Real property, £4,234. Pop., 1,028. Houses, 208. The property is divided	Imperial
  SHAFTESBURY	Dorset	Cann, Compton-Abbas, East Stower, Margaret-Marsh, Melbury-Abbas, Mot-combe, Stower-Provost, Todbere, and Donhead, St. Mary, and part	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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