We could not match "BRIXHAM" 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 18 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 "BRIXHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Boohay	Devon	Boohay , hamlet, Brixham par., E. Devon, 4½ miles NE. of Dartmouth.	Bartholomew
  BOOHAY	Devon	BOOHAY , a hamlet in Brixham parish, Devon; 4½ miles NE of Dartmouth. Pop., 28.	Imperial
  Brixham	Devon	Brixham , seaport town and par., S. Devon, 7 m. SE. of Totnes and 225 SW. of London by rail -- par., 5611 ac., pop. 7033; town	Bartholomew
  BRIXHAM	Devon	BRIXHAM , a town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Totnes district, Devon. The town stands at the southern point of Torbay	Imperial
  Churston Ferrers	Devon	coast par. and vil. (ry. sta. Churston), S. Devon, 1½ mile W. of Brixham, 2532 ac., pop. 631; P.O.	Bartholomew
  CHURSTON-FERRERS	Devon	Brixham, South Devon. Acres, 2, 777; of which 250 are water. Real property, £3, 498. Pop., 766. Houses, 145. The property	Imperial
  DARTMOUTH	Devon	Brixham; and was recently connected by railway northward with the Torquay branch of the South Devon railway. It was known	Imperial
  DARTMOUTH AND TORBAY RAILWAY	Devon	Brixham-Road, fully 2 miles, was opened in April 1861; and the rest was opened in August, 1864. The terminus	Imperial
  DEVONSHIRE, or Devon	Devon	Brixham, Cleaves, and Ilsington. Granitic rocks occupy Dartmoor; old red sandstone or Devonian rocks form the northern part of North	Imperial
  DEVON (South) RAILWAY	Devon	Brixham, and Dartmouth. The main line was authorized in 1844, and opened in 1847; and was worked for a time	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Brixham, Ipplepen, St. Mary-Church, St. Nicholas, Paington, and Stoke-St. Gabriel; the p. curacies of Churston-Ferrers, Lower Brixham	Imperial
  GALMPTON	Devon	Dartmouth. Pop., 261. It has a post office under Brixham, Devon, and an Independent chapel. Galmpton House here is the seat of the Luttrells.	Imperial
  KINGSWEAR	Devon	Brixham; is supposed to be older than Dartmouth; has a post office under Dartmouth and a railway station; and occupies	Imperial
  Lower Brixham	Devon	Lower Brixham , local government district, Brixham par., Devon, 7 miles SE. of Totnes, 399 ac., pop. 5366. See BRIXHAM.	Bartholomew
  Lupton House	Devon	Lupton House , seat of Lord Churston, 1½ mile SW. of Brixham, Devon.	Bartholomew
  TORBAY AND BRIXHAM RAILWAY	Devon	BRIXHAM RAILWAY , a railway in the SE of Devon; from the Dartmouth and Torbay line at Brixham-Road, 2¼ miles	Imperial
  TOTNES	Devon	Brixham, and Paignton sub-districts; and comprises 98,342 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £12,052. Pop. in 1851, 34,022; in 1861, 32,942. Houses	Imperial
  WOODHUISH	Devon	WOODHUISH , a hamlet in Brixham parish, Devon; 3¼ miles NE of Dartmouth.	Imperial

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