We could not match "NEW ELTHAM" 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 10 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  NEW ELTHAM LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	WOOLWICH MetB (Local Government District)

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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 "NEW ELTHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	CANTERBURY , a city in Kent, and a diocese in Kent and Surrey. The city partly forms a district of itself	Imperial
  CORNWALL	Cornwall	New Connexion Methodists, with 1, 550 s.; 38 of Primitive Methodists, with 7, 416 s.; 93 of the Wesleyan Association, with 16, 296 s.; 6 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 880 s.; 182 of Bible Christians, with 25, 763 s.; 3 of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, with 964 s.; 6 of Brethren, with 668 s.; 10 of isolated congregations, with 875 s.; 1 of the Catholic and Apostolic Church, with 260 s.; 7 of Roman Catholics, with 1, 131 s.; and 2 of Jews, with 96 s. The schools were 258 public day schools, with 18, 982 scholars; 816 private	Imperial
  ELTHAM	Kent	Eltham. Edward III. held parliaments here; and, in 1365, gave sumptuous entertainment here to his former prisoner, King John of France. The regent Lionel, son of Edward III., kept Christmas here in 1347. Richard II. entertained here Leo, king of Armenia, in 1386. Henry IV. was here in 1409; Henry VI., in 1429; Edward IV., in 1483. The Princess Bridget, danghter of Edward IV., was born here. Henry VIII. was here in 1515 and 1526; but began, after the latter year, to cherish a preference for his new	Imperial
  GREENWICH	Kent	new town also, with pleasing features, and of agreeable character, has arise in the east. Numerous elegant villas likewise are on the outskirts, in the vicinity of Blackheath. Public Buildings. —The market house was rebuilt in 1831. The court house, in Burney street, is a place of county courts for Greenwich, Deptford, Lewisham, Kidbrook, Eltham	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	KENT , a maritime county; bounded on the N, by the Thames and the German ocean; on the E, by the	Imperial
  Lesmahagow	Lanarkshire	Lesmahagow (anc. Lesmachute or Lesmahagu, `the green ( lis ) or court ( lys ) of St Machutus or Maclou'), a parish in the	Groome
  LEWISHAM	Kent	Eltham, conterminate with Eltham parish; and the sub-district of Plumstead, containing the parishes of Plumstead and Charlton-next-Woolwich. Acres, 17,224. Poor rates in 1863, £21,263. Pop. in 1851, 34,835; in 1861,65,757. Houses, 9,707. Marriages in 1863,628; births, 2,582,-of which 57 were illegitimate; deaths, 1,107, of which 490 were at ages under 5 years, and 22 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60,5,609; births, 15,682; deaths, 8,424. The places of worship, in 1851, were 17 of the Church of England	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Eltham, Greenwich, Lewisham, and Plum stead; and the p. curacies and chapelries in the same parishes as these livings. The deanery of St-GeorgeHanover-square contains all the livings in St. G. H. sq. parish. The deanery of Hampton contains the rectories of Hanworth, Littleton, and Shepperton; the vicarages of Feltham, Hampton, Sunbury, and Twickenham; the p. curacies of Hampton-Wick, New	Imperial
  Woolwich	Kent	Eltham and the par. of Plumstead), 8296 ac., pop. 74,963; 3 Banks, 4 newspapers. The chief feature of Woolwich is the arsenal, one of the most extensive and complete establishments of the kind in the world. It is 4 miles in circumference, and is divided into the carriage, gun factory, laboratory, saddlery, and ordnance departments. The arsenal was transferred from Moorfields to Woolwich in 1716. The dockyard dates from the reign of Henry VIII., but it never attained to first rank among English naval yards. Almost the only buildings of interest are the military establishments, such as the military	Bartholomew

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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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