We could not match "BICKENHILL" 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 11 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 "BICKENHILL" (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 "BICKENHILL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bickenhill	Warwickshire	Bickenhill , par., N. Warwickshire, 8 miles SE. of Birmingham, 2834 ac., pop. 510; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BICKENHILL	Warwickshire	BICKENHILL , a parish in Meriden district, Warwick; on the Northwestern railway and the Warwick canal, 2 miles NW of Hampton	Imperial
  ELMDON	Warwickshire	Bickenhill, under Birmingham. Acres, 1, 127. Real property, £2, 269. Pop., 206. Houses, 34. The property is divided among	Imperial
  Kingsford	Warwickshire	Kingsford , hamlet, Bickenhill and Solihull pars., Warwickshire, 6½ miles SE. of Birmingham.	Bartholomew
  KINGSFORD	Warwickshire	KINGSFORD , a hamlet in Bickenhill and Solihull parishes, Warwick.	Imperial
  LYNDON	Warwickshire	LYNDON , a quarter in Bickenhill parish, Warwick; 4 miles S of Coleshill.	Imperial
  MARSTON	Warwickshire	Bickenhill parish, Warwick; on the river Cole, 3¼ miles SW of Coleshill. Pop., 246. Marston Hall is the seat	Imperial
  Marston Green	Warwickshire	Green , vil. with ry. sta., Bickenhill par., Warwickshire, 6½ miles E. of Birmingham; P.O.; in vicinity is Marston Hall , seat.	Bartholomew
  MERIDEN	Warwickshire	Bickenhill, Maxstoke, Lea-Marston, Nether Whitacre, Over Whitacre, and part of Shustoke. Acres of the district, 48,618. Poor rates	Imperial
  TAMWORTH	Derbyshire Staffordshire Warwickshire	Bickenhill, 14½ miles NNE of Birmingham; was known to the Saxons as Taman-weorthege or Tamaweorthige; had a palace	Imperial
  WHITACRE-JUNCTION	Warwickshire	Warwick; on the Birmingham and Derby railway, at the junction of the line southward to Bickenhill, 11¼ miles ENE of Birmingham.	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.