We could not match "HARTSHEAD" 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 14 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  HARTSHEAD	Manor	DEWSBURY Tn/AP/CP (Parish-level Unit)

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find units with names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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 "HARTSHEAD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE	Lancashire	Hartshead; and includes the hamlets of Lees, Crossbank, Alt, Altedge, Althill, Taunton, Knott-Lanes, Wood-Park, Hazlehurst, Heyrod, Smallshaw, and Hartshead	Imperial
  CLECKHEATON, or Clackheaton	Yorkshire	Hartshead-Moor; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Leeds. Acres, 1, 726. Real	Imperial
  CLIFTON	Yorkshire	Hartshead chapelry, W. R. Yorkshire; 4¼ miles N of Huddersfield. It contains Kirklees; and has a post office under	Imperial
  DEWSBURY	Yorkshire	Hartshead-with-Clifton, are separate benefices. Value of West-Town, D-Moor, and H. Heaton, each £150;* of E-Heaton	Imperial
  HALIFAX	Yorkshire	Hartshead and Clifton. Acres of the district 51, 784. Poor rates in 1863, £27, 763. Pop. in 1851, 120, 958; in 1861, 128, 673. Houses	Imperial
  Hartshead	Lancashire	Hartshead .-- vil., in par. and near Ashton under Lyne, SE. Lancashire.	Bartholomew
  Hartshead	Yorkshire	Hartshead , township, in par. and 4 miles NW. of Dewsbury, E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 863 ac., pop. 842; P.O.	Bartholomew
  HARTSHEAD	Lancashire	HARTSHEAD , a parochial division and a sub-district in Ashton-under-Lyne parish and district, Lancashire. The division lies on the verge	Imperial
  HARTSHEAD	Yorkshire	HARTSHEAD , a hamlet and a chapelry in Dewsbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies 2½ miles ENE of Brighouse	Imperial
  Hartshead Moor	Yorkshire	Hartshead Moor , hamlet, Birstal par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles SE. of Bradford.	Bartholomew
  HARTSHEAD-MOOR	Yorkshire	HARTSHEAD-MOOR , a hamlet partly in Cleckheaton township, Birstall parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 5 miles SSE of Bradford.	Imperial
  HURST	Lancashire	Hartshead division of the parish; is now under the local government act; and contains the villages of Higher Hurst, Hurst	Imperial
  STALEYBRIDGE	Cheshire	Hartshead township in Ashton-under-Lyne parish, part of Staley township in Mottram parish, and part of Dukinfield township in Stockport	Imperial

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• 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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