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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  COWLING	Manor	BEDALE CP/Tn/AP (Parish-level Unit)
  COWLING	Manor	KILDWICK AP/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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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 "COWLING":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BEDALE	Yorkshire	Cowling in the district of Leyburn. Acres, 7,551. Real property, £19,637. Pop., 2,860. Houses, 620. The property	Imperial
  BURRELL-CUM-COWLING	Yorkshire	COWLING , a township in Bedale parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 1¾ mile SW of Bedale. It has a post office	Imperial
  Burrill-cum-Cowling	Yorkshire	Burrill-cum-Cowling , township, Bedale par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 2 miles W. of Bedale, 1071 ac., pop. 100; P.O., called Burrill .	Bartholomew
  Cooling, or Cowling	Kent	Cowling , par., mid. Kent, on river Thames, 6½ miles E. of Gravesend, 1556 ac., pop. 232; contains remains of an ancient	Bartholomew
  COOLING, or Cowling	Kent	Cowling, a parish in Hoo district, Kent; on the Thames, 3¼ miles NE of Higham r. station, and 5 N of Rochester	Imperial
  Cowling	Yorkshire	Cowling , hamlet, Bedale par., North-Riding Yorkshire. See BURREL CUM COWLING.	Bartholomew
  Cowling	Yorkshire	Cowling .-- township, Kildwick par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles SW. or Skipton, 4716 ac., pop. 1901; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Cowling	Kent	Cowling , par., Kent. See cooling.	Bartholomew
  COWLING	Yorkshire	COWLING , N. R. Yorkshire. See Burrel-cum-Cowling.	Imperial
  COWLING	Yorkshire	COWLING , a township and a chapelry in Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies adjacent to the boundary with	Imperial
  Cowling Head	Yorkshire	Cowling Head , hamlet, 3 miles from Kildwick ry. sta., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire; P.O.	Bartholomew
  COWLING, or Cowlinge	Suffolk	COWLING , or Cowlinge, a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk; at the boundary with Cambridge, 5¾ miles S of Kennet	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Cowling, Denham, Denston, Heigbam-Green, and Stoke-by-Clare. The deanery of Fordham-Cambridge contains the rectories of Ashley, Cheveley	Imperial
  ICKORNSHAW	Yorkshire	ICKORNSHAW , a hamlet in Cowling township, Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 6½ miles NW of Keighley.	Imperial
  KILDWICK	Yorkshire	Cowling, Glusburn, Farnhill, Bradleys-Both, and Silsden. Acres, 17, 717. Pop. in 1851, 8, 763; in 1861, 7, 853. Houses	Imperial
  MARY (ST.)	Cornwall	Cowl is a granitic mass 100 feet high, over a natural amphitheatre. The Pulpit Rock exhibits disintegrated granite in horizontal	Imperial
  Monk's Cowl	Cornwall	Monk's Cowl , lofty block of granite, on Peninnis, St Mary's, Scilly Islands.	Bartholomew
  Newbattle	Midlothian	cowl. Andrew, who was abbot in May 1499, granted his lands of Kinnaird in Stirlingshire to Edward Bruce, 'his well	Groome

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