We could not match "BADLESMERE" 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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• 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 "BADLESMERE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Badlesmere	Kent	Badlesmere , par., E. Kent, 4½ miles S. of Faversham, 781 ac., pop. 157.	Bartholomew
  BADLESMERE	Kent	Badlesmere; was forfeited by the attainder and execution of John Earl of Oxford and Baron Badlesmere; and passed into the possession	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Badlesmere, steward of the household to Edward II., and many other men were buried in it. A priory of St. Gregory	Imperial
  CASTLE-COMBE	Wiltshire	Badlesmeres and others; but has belonged, for about 500 years, to the Scropes. The present mansion occupies a romantic site	Imperial
  CHATHAM	Kent	Badlesmeres, the Despensers, the Wentworths, and others. A royal dockyard was formed here in the time of Elizabeth; was greatly	Imperial
  CHILHAM	Kent	Badlesmeres and others; went, in the time of Edward VI., to Sir Thomas Cheney; went again, at the beginning of the 17th	Imperial
  ERITH	Kent	Badlesmeres, the Waldens, the Comptons, and others, to the Wheatleys. Belvidere House is the seat of Sir Culling Eardley, Bart	Imperial
  FAVERSHAM, or Feversham	Kent	Badlesmere, Leaveland, and Throwley. Acres, 46, 448. Poor-rates in 1862, £8, 974. Pop., in 1851, 16, 684; in 1861, 18, 867. Houses	Imperial
  HAMBLEDEN	Buckinghamshire	Badlesmeres, the Scropes, and the Claytons; and belongs now to the Murrays. The present manor house was built, in 1604, by the Earl	Imperial
  HAMBLETON	Rutland	Badlesmeres; and belongs now to George Finch, Esq. Hambleton Hall was a Tudor mansion, and became a farm house. The living	Imperial
  HEYTESBURY	Wiltshire	Badlesmeres, the Hungerfords, the Hastingses, and others. Heytesbury House, the seat of Lord Heytesbury, is on the N side of the town	Imperial
  LEAVELAND	Kent	Badlesmere, under Faversham. Acres, 372. Real property, £685. Pop., 94. Houses, 23. The property is divided among a few. The manor	Imperial
  LEEDS	Kent	Badlesmere was keeper of the castle under Edward II.; and, having connected himself with the Earl of Lancester, held it out against	Imperial
  SHIFFNAL	Shropshire	Badlesmeres, the Bohuns, the Mortimers, and the Talbots; stood originally to the W of its church, but suffered entire destruction	Imperial
  THAXTED	Essex	Badlesmeres, the Mortimers, and the Cuttses. Horham Hall was built by Sir John Cutts, who died in 1520; is a fine	Imperial

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• 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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