We could not match "HINTS" 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 "HINTS" (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 "HINTS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Blackhouse	Peebles Shire Selkirkshire	hinting-ground. The baronial tower stands on the left side of Douglas Burn, 3½ miles E of the mountain	Groome
  Borthwick	Midlothian	hinted by a northern baron, to whom a friend objected it as a defect, at least an inconvenience. ` We'll brizz	Groome
  Dumfries	Dumfries Shire	hint was enough; that day he started for Scotland, his horse shod backwards, that the hoof-prints might throw pursuers	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	hinted at, the citizens, smarting under the Darien disaster, with the recent massacre of Glencoe still fresh in their memories	Groome
  Forfar	Angus	hinted that such open-handedness would be rare in Scotland. 'Fient a bit o' that,' said canny James, 'the Provost	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	hint that his magnificence was carried out by money extorted in cruel fashion from his people. Pitscottie's opinion of him has been	Groome
  Harden	Roxburghshire	hint it was time to be riding. Once, on his homeward way with a `bow of kye and a bassened	Groome
  Hints	Staffordshire	Hints , par. and vil., E. Staffordshire, 4 miles SW. of Tamworth, 1849 ac., pop. 214; in vicinity of vil. is the seat	Bartholomew
  HINTS	Staffordshire	HINTS , a village and a parish in Tamworth district, Stafford. The village stands on Watling street and on an affluent	Imperial
  Lennox	Dunbartonshire Perthshire Renfrewshire Stirlingshire	hinted to that official his design, and offered him a pension from Henry, than he and his Englishmen were turned	Groome
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Hints, Ogley-Hay, Stounall, Wall, Weeford, Whittington, and Wichnor. The deanery of Allstonefield contains the rectories of Bloore-Ray and Grindon	Imperial
  Peterhead	Aberdeenshire	hint of troubles to come, for' About the 5th of November, in ane seamanis house of Peterheid there was hard	Groome
  Tweed	Berwickshire Peebles Shire	hint of a covered dish full of steel spurs set before him, that there was no more meat in the larder	Groome
  WEEFORD	Staffordshire	united with Hints, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £420. Patron, the Bishop of L. The church is good.	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.