We could not match "AVEBURY" 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 12 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 "AVEBURY" (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 "AVEBURY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASHDOWN PARK	Berkshire	Avebury, lie on the turf around the house; and a small circular camp, known as Alfred's Castle, lies to the E. Some	Imperial
  Avebury, or Abury	Wiltshire	Avebury , or Abury , par. and vil., N. Wilts, 6 miles W. of Marlborough, 4544 ac., pop. 725; P.O. The vil. occupies	Bartholomew
  AVEBURY, or Abury	Wiltshire	AVEBURY , or Abury, a village and a parish in Marlborough district, Wilts. The village adjoins a headstream of the Kennet	Imperial
  Beckhampton	Wiltshire	Beckhampton , tithing, Avebury par., N. Wilts, 6 miles W. of Marlborough.	Bartholomew
  BECKHAMPTON	Wiltshire	Avebury parish, Wilts; on the Downs, 6 miles W of Marlborough. Here are. several barrows, two large Druidic stones, and a ruined	Imperial
  KENNET (EAST and WEST)	Wiltshire	Avebury parish, Wilts; on the river Kennet, adjacent to East Kennet parish, 5 miles W of Marlborough. It anciently formed	Imperial
  Kennet, West	Wiltshire	Kennet, West , ancient par., now merged in Avebury par., Wilts, on river Kennet, adjacent to East Kennet.	Bartholomew
  MARLBOROUGH	Wiltshire	Avebury, are in the neighbourhood. Henry of Marlborough, the historian, who flourished during the early part of the 15th century	Imperial
  SALISBURY	Berkshire Dorset Wiltshire	Avebury, with 33 livings; the d. of Marlborough, with34; and the d. of Pottern, with 45. The archd. of Dorset	Imperial
  SILBURY-HILL	Wiltshire	Avebury. It measures 1,680 feet in circuit at the base, and 315 at the top; is 135 feet high	Imperial
  Wiltshire (or Wilts)	Wiltshire	Avebury. The county contains 29 hundreds, 340 pars, and parts of 7 others, the parl. and mun. bor. of Salisbury	Bartholomew
  WILTS, or Wiltshire	Wiltshire	Avebury. Cromlechs are at Bulford, Clatford, Littleton-Drew, and Monkton-Fields. Ancient British boundaries are presented in Wans-dyke and Bokerley	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.