You searched for "JOHNSHAVEN" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. 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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• 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 "JOHNSHAVEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Arbroath	Angus	Johnshaven, and Muirton, the 13 numbering 3977 members in 1879. See Liber S. Thomœ de Aberbrothoc 1178-1329, edited	Groome
  Benholm	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven, with postal, money order, savings' bank, and telegraph office under Fordoun, and with a station 9 miles NNE of Montrose	Groome
  Brotherton House	Kincardineshire	Brotherton House , seat, Benholm par., Kincardineshire, near Johnshaven.	Bartholomew
  Den Fenella	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven. It took its name from Fenella or Finvela, daughter of the Earl of Angus, in the time of Kenneth	Groome
  Den Fenella	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven; is traditionally named from Fenella, a daughter of the Maormar of Angus, slain here in 995; near the sea the Fenella	Bartholomew
  Haughs Bay	Kincardineshire	Haughs Bay , Kincardine, 2 m. NE. of Johnshaven.	Bartholomew
  Johnshaven	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven , fishing vil. with ry. sta., Benholm par., Kincardineshire, 8½ miles NE. of Montrose, pop. 1041; P.O., T.O.; has a brewery	Bartholomew
  Johnshaven	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven, a fishing village in Benholm parish, Kincardineshire, with a station on the Bervie branch of the North British, 4¼ miles	Groome
  Kincardineshire	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven, Gourdon, Caterline, and Muchalls; batteries of artillery volunteers at Johnshaven, St Cyrus, and Bervie; and the headquarters of the 1st Deeside	Groome
  Kincardineshire (or Mearns)	Kincardineshire	Stonehaven, and the vils. of Auchinblae, Banchory, Cove, Fettercairn, Johnshaven, Laurencekirk, &c. The co. returns 1 member to Parliament.	Bartholomew
  Milton	Kincardineshire	Milton , fishing vil., St Cyrus par., Kincardineshire, 2 miles SW. of Johnshaven.	Bartholomew
  Milton	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven. It once was a place of some importance, but since about 1790 has suffered much injury from encroachment of the sea and other	Groome
  Montrose	Angus	Johnshaven, and Gourdon; but it is now restricted to the reach from Redhead to Todhead, and therefore includes now only	Groome
  St Cyrus	Kincardineshire	Johnshaven, was built on an ancient shingle beach, protected by a projecting ledge of limestone rock. This was quarried for lime	Groome

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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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