We could not match "KEMPSTON" 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 13 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 "KEMPSTON" (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 "KEMPSTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BEDFORD	Bedfordshire	Kempston and Bedford and Cardington. The former comprises the eastern ward of the borough and the parishes of Kempston, Wootton	Imperial
  CASTLEMACADAM	Wicklow	Kempston and Tilly, are said to produce the richest copper ore at present known in Ireland, yielding an average from	Lewis:Ireland
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Kempston, Willington, Wilhampstead, and Wootton; and the p. curacies of Bedford-Trinity and Elstow. The deanery of Clapham contains the rectories	Imperial
  Fetteresso	Kincardineshire	Kempstone Hill (432), White Hill (495), Curlethney Hill (806), Meikle Carewe Hill (872), the Hill of Pitspunkie (666), Craigneil (886), and, on the northern	Groome
  Greeen End	Bedfordshire	Greeen End , hamlet, Kempston par., in co. and vicinity of Bedford.	Bartholomew
  Kempston	Norfolk	Kempston , par., Norfolk, 2 miles NW. of Fransham sta., 814 ac., pop. 47.	Bartholomew
  Kempston	Bedfordshire	relics of the Saxon era have been discovered; in vicinity of vil. are the seats of Kempston House and Kempston Grange .	Bartholomew
  KEMPSTON	Norfolk	KEMPSTON , a parish in Mitford district, Norfolk; 1¼ mile S by W of Litcham, and 2 NNW of Fransham	Imperial
  KEMPSTON	Bedfordshire	KEMPSTON , a village and a parish in the district and county of Bedford. The village stands on the river Ouse	Imperial
  MITFORD	Norfolk	Kempston, Great Dunham, Little Dunham, Great Fransham, East Lexham, West Lexham, Rougham, Weasenham-All Saints, Weasenham-St. Peter, Wellingham, and Tittleshall	Imperial
  MOGGERHANGER, or MUGGERHANGER	Bedfordshire	Kempston stone and Silsoe red sandstone, with pillars of Ancaster stone; consists of nave, aisles, transepts, and apsidal chancel, with	Imperial
  OUSE, or Great Ouse (The)	Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Norfolk	Kempston, to Bedford, thence eastward to Great Barford, and thence north-north-eastward to a point ¾of a mile	Imperial
  RATHDRUM	Wicklow	Kempston, Esq., at the celebrated Meeting of the Waters, on a rustic seat in the lawn of which Moore is said	Lewis:Ireland

  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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