We could not match "EDDYSTONE" 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 13 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 "EDDYSTONE" (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 "EDDYSTONE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  AUSTHORPE	Yorkshire	native; and his monument, with a representation on it of his greatest work, the Eddystone lighthouse, is in Whitkirk church.	Imperial
  Bell Rock or Inchcape	Angus	Eddystone Lighthouse; consists of granite in the basement and the exterior casing, of sandstone in the interior work; and has a diameter	Groome
  DUNGE-NESS	Kent	Eddystone, built wholly at the expense of the Ven. Earl of Leicester, rising to the height of 92 feet, and visible	Imperial
  EDDYSTONE	Devon	EDDYSTONE , a reef and a lighthouse in Devon; in N lat. 50 o 11', W long 4 o 15', and 10 miles	Imperial
  Eddystone Lighthouse		Eddystone Lighthouse , on the Eddystone Rocks, a dangerous reef in the English Channel, 14 miles SW. of Plymouth. The first	Bartholomew
  ENGLISH CHANNEL	England	Eddystone, the Lizard, Longships, and Seven Stones. The French coast measures about 510 miles; contains a tolerable haven at Havre	Imperial
  Hand Deeps	Devon	Hand Deeps , shoal in English Channel, in NW. vicinity of Eddystone Lighthouse and 9 miles SW. of Rame Head.	Bartholomew
  HAND DEEPS	Devon	shoal in the English channel; near the Eddystone lighthouse, 7 miles SW by S of Plymouth breakwater. It has 5 fathoms water.	Imperial
  LANDS-END	Cornwall	Eddystone lighthouse, 62 feet in circuit at the base, and 52 feet high from the rock to the lantern-vane	Imperial
  Littlebury	Essex	builder of the first Eddystone Lighthouse, was a native; 1½ mile SW. of vil. is the hamlet of Littlebury Green .	Bartholomew
  LITTLEBURY	Essex	with £75 a year, and charities £33. Winstanley, who built the first Eddystone lighthouse, and perished in it, was a native.	Imperial
  Rame	Cornwall	Cornwall, 4 miles SW. of Plymouth, 1261 ac., pop. 852; Rame Head is the nearest land to the Eddystone Lighthouse.	Bartholomew
  RAME	Cornwall	Eddystone lighthouse; commands a view of the Cornish coast, away to the Lizard; is crowned with the ruin of a chapel	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.



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