We could not match "ELMSWELL" 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 15 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 "ELMSWELL" (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 "ELMSWELL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASHFIELD (Great)	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 7½ NW of Stowmarket. It has a post office of the name of Ashfield, under	Imperial
  DRINKSTONE	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 6 WNW of Stow-market. Post town, Woolpit, under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 2, 172. Real	Imperial
  Elmswell	Suffolk	Elmswell , par. and ry. sta., W. Suffolk, 6 miles NW. of Stowmarket, 2060 ac., pop. 761; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  ELMSWELL	Suffolk	ELMSWELL , a parish in Stow district, Suffolk; on the Eastern Union railway, 6 miles NW of Stowmarket. It has a station	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Elmswell, Eustone, Fakenham-Parva, Fakenham-Magna, Barnham, Hepworth, Hinderclay, Honington, Ingham, Timworth, Culford, Knettishall, Langham-St. Mary, Little Livermere, Great	Imperial
  GEDDING	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 6 ½ W by S of Stow-market. Post town, Felsham, under Bury St. Edmunds. Acres	Imperial
  HUNSTON	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 8 NW of Stowmarket. Post town, Ixworth, under Bury St. Edmunds. Acres, 957. Real property, £1, 584. Pop., 172. Houses	Imperial
  Langham	Suffolk	Suffolk, 4 miles NW. of Elmswell, 951 ac., pop. 204; in vicinity of vil. is the seat of Langham Hall.	Bartholomew
  LANGHAM	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station. Post-town, Ixworth, under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 951. Real property, £1,600. Pop., 242. Houses	Imperial
  NORTON	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 6¾ E by N of Bury, St. Edmunds; and has a post-office under Bury	Imperial
  RATTLESDEN	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 4¾ W of Stowmarket; and has a post-office under Bury, St. Edmunds. The parish	Imperial
  STANTON	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 9 NE of Bury-St. Edmunds; and has a post-office under Bury-St. Edmunds, and a fair	Imperial
  TOSTOCK	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 6½ E by S of Bury-St. Edmunds. Post town, Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 945. Real	Imperial
  WETHERDEN	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 4 NW of Stowmarket. Post town, Stow-market. Acres, 1,830. Real property, £3,273. Pop., 479. Houses	Imperial
  WOOLPIT	Suffolk	Elmswell r. station, and 5½ NW by W of Stowmarket. It has a post-office‡ under Bury-St. Edmunds	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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