We could not match "CHELSFIELD" 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 9 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  CHELSFIELD LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	ORPINGTON UD (Local Government District)

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find units with names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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 "CHELSFIELD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BROMLEY	Kent	Chelsfield, Orpington, St. MaryCray, St. Paul-Cray, Foots-Cray, and North-Cray. Acres, 39,927. Poor-rates in 1866, £14,191. Pop. in 1861, 20,368. Houses	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Chelsfield, Chiselhurst, Crayford, Footscray, North Cray, St. Paul's-Cray, and Keston; the vicarages of Addington, Bexley, Croydon, Cudham, Dartford	Imperial
  Chelsfield	Kent	Chelsfield , par. and ry. sta., W. Kent, 6½ miles SE. of Bromley, 3378 ac., pop. 947; P.O.	Bartholomew
  CHELSFIELD	Kent	CHELSFIELD , a parish, with a village, in Bromley district, Kent; 6½ miles SE of Bromley. It has a post	Imperial
  CUDHAM	Kent	Chelsfield r. station, and 7 SSE of Bromley; has a post office under Bromley; and was once a market-town	Imperial
  FARNBOROUGH	Kent	Chelsfield, in the diocese of Canterbury. The church was built in the 17th century, and is good. The Bromley workhouse	Imperial
  Green Street Green	Kent	Green Street Green , hamlet, Farnborough and Chelsfield pars., W. Kent, 1 mile SE. of Farnborough; P.O.	Bartholomew
  GREEN STREET GREEN	Kent	Farnborough and Chelsfield parishes, Kent; 1 mile S by E of Farnborough. It has a large brewery and a national school.	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.