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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 "CHEW MAGNA" (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 "CHEW MAGNA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	Chew, in its Chew-Magna district, contains the rectories of Butcombe, Chelwood, Chew-Stoke, Clutton, Compton-Martin, Hinton-Bluett, Norton	Imperial
  Bishops-Sutton	Somerset	Bishops-Sutton , 5 miles from Chew Magna, Somerset; P.O.	Bartholomew
  CHEW	Somerset	CHEW , a hundred in Somerset. It contains Chew-Magna and Chew-Stoke parishes, and six others. Acres, 15, 182. Pop., 6, 200. Houses	Imperial
  Chew Magna	Somerset	Chew Magna , par. and vil., E. Somerset, 7 miles SW. of Bristol, 5006 ac., pop. 1643; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  CHEW-MAGNA	Somerset	CHEW-MAGNA , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Clutton district, Somerset. The village stands on an affluent	Imperial
  CLUTTON	Somerset	Chew-Magna, containing the parishes of Chew-Magna, Chew-Stoke, Stowey, Norton-Malreward, Stanton-Drew, Publow, and St. Thomas-in-Pensford	Imperial
  DUNDRY	Somerset	Chew Magna, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church stands on Dundry hill; is in very good condition	Imperial
  Elm, North	Somerset	Elm, North , Chew Magna par., E. Somerset, 5 miles SW. of Bristol.	Bartholomew
  ELM (North)	Somerset	ELM (North) , a tything in Chew-Magna parish, Somerset; 5¼ miles SSW of Bristol. Pop., 345.	Imperial
  Knighton Sutton	Somerset	Knighton Sutton , hamlet, Chew Magna par., in N. of Somerset, 6½ miles S. of Bristol.	Bartholomew
  KNIGHTON-SUTTON	Somerset	KNIGHTON-SUTTON , a township, conjoined with Knowle, in Chew-Magna parish, Somerset; 6½ miles S of Bristol.	Imperial
  Knowle	Somerset	Knowle , hamlet, Chew Magna par., Somerset, 6½ miles S. of Bristol.	Bartholomew
  KNOWLE	Somerset	KNOWLE , a tything in Chew-Magna parish, Somerset; 6½ miles S of Bristol. Real property, £2, 441. Pop., 360.	Imperial
  North Elm	Somerset	North Elm , hamlet, Chew Magna par., Somerset, 5 miles SW. of Bristol.	Bartholomew
  SOMERSET, or Somersetshire	Somerset	Chew-Magna; British camps, at Leigh-down, Ashton, Doleberry, Bleadonhill, Maesknoll, Portbury, Banwell, and Worlehill; Roman camps, at Doleberry, North	Imperial
  Stone	Somerset	Stone , hamlet, Chew Magna par., Somerset, 6 miles S. of Bristol.	Bartholomew
  STONE	Somerset	STONE , a tything in Chew-Magna parish, Somerset; 6½ miles S of Bristol. Real property, £3,273. Pop., 648.	Imperial
  Sutton, Bishop's	Somerset	Bishop's , eccl. dist. and vil., Chew Magna par., Somerset - dist., pop. 644; vil., 3 miles SE. of Chew Magna; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Sutton Court	Somerset	Sutton Court , seat of the Strachey family, Chew Magna par., Somerset, 8 miles S. of Bristol.	Bartholomew
  SUTTON-COURT	Somerset	SUTTON-COURT , the seat of Sir E. Strachey, Bart.; in Chew-Magna parish, Somerset.	Imperial

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