We could not match "HAWKHURST" 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 16 possible matches we have found for you:

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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 "HAWKHURST":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BARNFIELD (East)	Kent	BARNFIELD (East) , a hundred in the lathe of Scray, conterminate with the parish of Hawkhurst, Kent. See Hawkhurst.	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Hawkhurst; and the donative of Smallhythe. The deanery of Shoreham includes the rectories of Brasted, Chevening, Halstead, Ightham, Lullingstone, Sevenoaks	Imperial
  COLLINGWOOD	Sussex	COLLINGWOOD , the seat of Sir John Herschel, Bart.; in the vicinity of Hawkhurst, in Sussex.	Imperial
  Collingwood House	Kent	Collingwood House .-- seat, ½ mile SE. of Hawkhurst, mid. Kent.	Bartholomew
  CRANBROOK	Kent	Hawkhurst, containing the parishes of Hawkhurst, Goudhurst, and Sandhurst. Acres, 40, 249. Poor-rates, in 1862, £8, 068. Pop. in 1841, 13, 163; in 1861, 13, 412. Houses	Imperial
  Flimwell	Sussex	Etchingham par., Sussex, and Hawkhurst par., Sussex and Kent -- dist., pop. 873; hamlet, 3½ miles N. of Etchingham sta.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  FLIMWELL	Sussex	Hawkhurst parishes, Sussex. The hamlet lies 2 miles ENE of Ticehurst village, and 3½ N of Etchingham r. station	Imperial
  Gills Green	Kent	Gills Green , vil., Hawkhurst par., mid. Kent.	Bartholomew
  Hawkhurst	Kent Sussex	Hawkhurst , par. and vil., partly in E. Sussex, but chiefly in mid. Kent, 4 miles SW. of Cranbrook, 6529 ac., pop. 3097; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank	Bartholomew
  HAWKHURST	Kent	HAWKHURST , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Cranbrook district, Kent; but part of the parish and the sub-district	Imperial
  Heatherden House	Sussex	Heatherden House , seat, near NE. border of Sussex; post-town, Hawkhurst.	Bartholomew
  Higham House	Sussex	Higham House , seat, E. Sussex, near N. border of co., 3 miles S. of Hawkhurst.	Bartholomew
  Highgate	Kent	Highgate , vil., Hawkhurst par., mid. Kent, 4 miles S. of Cranbrook.	Bartholomew
  HURST		instances by itself, in very many instances in composition, as in Ticehurst, Hawkhurst, c, to designate places which were once foreST.	Imperial
  Lillesden	Kent	Lillesden , seat, near Hawkhurst, Kent.	Bartholomew
  Seacox Heath	Kent	Seacox Heath , seat, Kent; post-town, Hawkhurst.	Bartholomew

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