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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 "DRAX":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALMER	Dorset	Drax, Esq. of Charborough; and much of the surface is included in Charborough Park. The living is a rectory in the diocese	Imperial
  Camblesforth	Yorkshire	Drax par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, between rivers Ouse and Aire, 4 miles SE. of Selby, 1596 ac., pop. 280; P.O.	Bartholomew
  CAMBLESFORTH	Yorkshire	Drax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; between the rivers Ouse and Aire, 2½ miles N of Snaith. It has a post	Imperial
  CHARBOROUGH	Dorset	Drax. Charborough House, formerly the seat of the Erles, now the seat of the Draxes, has on the ceiling of the staircase	Imperial
  Drax	Yorkshire	Drax , par. and township, E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Ouse, 3½ m. NE. of Snaith -- par., 6970ac	Bartholomew
  DRAX	Yorkshire	DRAX , a township and a parish in Selby district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Ouse, 2¾ miles	Imperial
  Drax, Long	Yorkshire	Drax, Long , township, Drax par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 1696 ac., pop. 156.	Bartholomew
  DRAX (Long)	Yorkshire	DRAX (Long) , a township in Drax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; at the confluence of the Derwent and the Ouse, 1 mile	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Drax, Rasen-Tupholme, Tealby, and North Willingham. The deanery of Wraghoo contains the rectories of East Barkwith, West Barkwith, Benniworth	Imperial
  LONGBURTON	Dorset	Drax, Esq. Limestone for building is quarried; and the making of gloves is carried on. The living is a vicarage	Imperial
  MORDEN	Dorset	Drax. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £250.* Patron, Miss Drax. The church is ancient	Imperial
  Newland	Yorkshire	Drax par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Aire, 3½ miles NE. of Snaith, 2296 ac. (160 water	Bartholomew
  NEWLAND	Yorkshire	Drax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire, 3¾ miles N E by E of Snaith. Acres, 2, 104. Real	Imperial
  RASEN (Middle)	Lincolnshire	Drax and Rasen Tupholme. Post-town, Market-Rasen. Acres, 3, 470. Real property, £6, 236. Pop. in 1851, 948; in 1861, 1,063. Houses	Imperial
  SELBY	Yorkshire	Drax parish, and three townships of Birkin parish; and the sub-district of Riccall, electorally in E. R. Yorkshire, and containing	Imperial
  SPETISBURY	Dorset	Drax, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1861. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with	Imperial
  SWELL	Somerset	belongs to J. S. Drax, Esq. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Fivehead. The church was repaired in 1859.	Imperial
  TARRANT-CRAWFORD	Dorset	diocese of Salisbury. Value, £50. Patron, J. S. Drax, Esq. Bishop Poore, of the 13th century, was a native.	Imperial
  TUPHOLME	Lincolnshire	dissolution, to Sir T. Heneage; and has left some picturesque ruins. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Rasen-Middle-Drax.	Imperial

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