We could not match "EBONY" 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 "EBONY" (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 "EBONY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Abbotsford	Roxburghshire	ebony chairs, presented by George IV., and several chastely-carved cabinets. The library is entered from the drawing-room: measures	Groome
  APPLEDORE	Kent	Ebony. Value, £200.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church has a singular projection from the N side of the nave	Imperial
  BOCONNOC	Cornwall	ebony chairs, made out of Queen Elizabeth's cradle. The grounds are the finest in Cornwall; and contain an obelisk	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Ebony, and Fairfield. The deanery of Ospringe includes the rectories of Badlesmere, Leaveland, Eastling, Hever, Luddenham, Norton, and Otterden; the vicarages	Imperial
  COWAY-STAKES	Surrey	passage; and trunks of young oaks, so indurated as to resemble ebony, were not long ago found at the place.	Imperial
  Devil's Cauldron	Perthshire	ebony, throws itself impetuously into a basin, where it hisses, and foams, and shrieks, and writhes, like a demon newly	Groome
  Ebony	Kent	Ebony , par. and hamlet, mid. Kent, 3½ miles SE. of Tenterden, 2215 ac. (27 water), pop. 177.	Bartholomew
  EBONY	Kent	EBONY , a parish in Tenterden district, Kent; 3 miles W of Appledore r. station, and 3¾ SE of Tenterden	Imperial
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Ebony, ' Blackwood maintains its position in the face of numerous and formidable rivals, and is still admirable for the various	Groome
  HAXEY	Lincolnshire	ebony, and representing a Roman warrior, was found, several feet deep in the earth, in 1802. There is a stratum	Imperial
  LAMBLEY	Northumberland	ebony, have been found near the river. The living is a donative in the diocese of Durham. Value, not reported	Imperial
  NEWGATE (The)	Pembrokeshire	earth and severalold blocks like ebony, so that it did not appear like the sea-shore, but rather resembled a grove.	Imperial
  OXNEY	Kent	Ebony, and Wittersham; and is famousfor its fertile cattle-feeding marshes. Acres, 8, 852. Pop. in 1861, 1, 483. Houses	Imperial
  Tenterden	Kent	Ebony par. Tenterden is situated on a height surrounded by hop plantations, and was at one time only 3 miles	Bartholomew
  TENTERDEN	Kent	Ebony; is a seat of quarter sessions, petty sessions, county courts, and a polling place; consists chiefly of one street	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.



• 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.