We could not match "MANSTON" 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 "MANSTON" (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 "MANSTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  AUSTHORPE	Yorkshire	Manston. Acres, 660. Real property, £1,966. Pop., 231. Houses, 44. Smeaton, the civil engineer, born in 1724, was a native	Imperial
  BARWICK-IN-ELMETT	Yorkshire	charities £32. The chapelries of Manston and Roundhay are separate benefices. The workhouse of Tadcaster district is in Barwick township.	Imperial
  DORSETSHIRE, or Dorset	Dorset	Manston, Moor-Critchell, Nottington House, Strode House, Studland, Thornhill House, Turnworth, Upton, West Stafford, Whatcombe, and Wolveton. Real property in 1815, £726, 264; in 1843, £917, 077; in 1851, £970, 858; in 1860, £992, 760, -of which	Imperial
  HAMMOON	Dorset	Manston, £4, 585. Rated property of H. alone, £1, 394. Pop., 74. Houses, 17. The property is divided	Imperial
  LAWRENCE (ST.)	Kent	Manston, Poleash, Spratting-Street, Coldswood, Haine, Newington, Puddle-Dock, and Whitehall; part of Ellington hamlet; and parts of Northwood, Poisons	Imperial
  Manston	Yorkshire	Manston , eccl. dist., Barwick in Elmet and Whitkirk pars., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles E. of Leeds, pop. 1214.	Bartholomew
  Manston	Kent	Manston , hamlet, St Lawrence Thanet par., Kent, 2 miles W. of Ramsgate; Manston Court (with ruins of chapel), the seat	Bartholomew
  Manston	Dorset	Manston .-- par., Dorset, on river Stour, 2 miles NE. of Sturminster Newton, 1323 ac., pop. 187; contains Manston House , seat	Bartholomew
  MANSTON	Dorset	MANSTON , a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset; on the river Stour, 2 miles ENE of Sturminster-Newton r. station-Post	Imperial
  MANSTON	Yorkshire	MANSTON , a chapelry in Barwick-in-Elmet parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Leeds and Selby railway, 3¼ miles	Imperial
  MANSTON	Kent	MANSTON , a hamlet in St. Lawrence parish, Kent; 2 miles W of Ramsgate. Manston Court was the seat of the Manstons	Imperial
  SEACROFT	Yorkshire	Manston Hall, and Manston Lodge are chief residences. The chapelry was constituted in 1846, and is all in Whitkirk parish	Imperial
  WHITKIRK	Yorkshire	Manston Hall, Manston Lodge, Seacroft Grange, Seacroft Hall, Killingbeck Hall, Killingbeck Lodge, Austhorpe Hall, Austhorpe Lodge, and Templenewsam House are chief	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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