We could not match "DRAINIE" 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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• 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 "DRAINIE" (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 "DRAINIE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Branderburgh	Moray	Branderburgh , small coast town, conjoint with Lossiemouth, Drainie par., Elginshire, pop. 1888.	Bartholomew
  Branderburgh	Moray	Drainie parish, Elginshire, on the coast, conjoint with Lossiemouth. It has a Baptist chapel; and, prior to 1871, it adopted	Groome
  Covesea	Moray	Drainie parish, Elginshire, 5¾ miles NNW of Elgin, and 3½ W of Lossiemouth. The shore here is rocky	Groome
  Drainie	Moray	Drainie, a coast parish of Elginshire, comprising the ancient parishes of Kinneddar and Ogstonn, and containing the villages of Branderburgh	Groome
  Drainie	Moray	Drainie , coast par., Elginshire, 6949 ac., pop. 3991; contains the town of Lossiemouth and Branderburgh; has sandstone, limestone, and lead	Bartholomew
  Duffus	Moray	Drainie, SE by New Spynie, and SW by Alves. Its length, from E to W, varies between 3 7 / 8 and 6½ miles	Groome
  Elgin	Moray	Drainie, Duffus, Speymouth, Spynie, and Urquhart, the quoad sacra parish of Burghead, and the mission of Lossiemouth. Pop. (1871) 22,966, (1881) 23, 984, of whom	Groome
  Elginshire or Moray	Moray	Drainie, Duffus, Spynie, Alves, Kinloss and Dyke, and Moy is rich and fertile with heavy loam and strong clay soils	Groome
  Gordonstown	Moray	Drainie parish, Elginshire, 1 ¼ mile from the coast, and 5½ miles NNW of Elgin. The estate was purchased	Groome
  Kinnedar	Moray	Kinnedar , place with school, Drainie par., Elginshire, 1 mile SW. of Lossiemouth.	Bartholomew
  Losie	Moray	Drainie. The distance from source to mouth is only 19 miles, but so numerous are the windings that the distance	Groome
  Lossiemouth	Moray	Drainie parish, Elginshire, at the mouth of the river just described, and by rail 5½ miles NNE of Elgin	Groome
  Lossiemouth (and Branderburgh)	Moray	Drainie par., Elginshire, at mouth of river Lossie, 5½ miles NE. of Elgin and 573 NW. of London by raft	Bartholomew
  Ogstoun	Moray	Ogstoun , ancient par., now in Drainie par., Elginshire.	Bartholomew
  Seatown	Moray	Seatown , part of Lossiemouth and Branderburgh, Drainie par., Elginshire, pop. 277.	Bartholomew
  Spynie or New Spynie	Moray	Drainie, E and SE by the parish of St Andrews-Lhanbryd, SSE and S by the parish of Elgin, SW by the parish	Groome
  St Andrews-Lhanbryd	Moray	Drainie, SE by the parish of Urquhart, E by the parish of Speymouth, S by the parish of Rothes, SW by the parish	Groome
  Urquhart	Moray	Drainie. Except for 2 7 / 8 miles at the NW corner, where the river Lossie forms the whole boundary, from	Groome

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