We could not match "ORMESBY" 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 13 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  ORMESBY	Manor	ORMESBY ST MARGARET WITH SCRATBY CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)

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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 "ORMESBY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Cleveland, Port, or Cargo Fleet	Yorkshire	with ry. sta. (Cargo Fleet), Ormesby par., North-Riding Yorkshire, at mouth of river Tees, 1½ m. S. of Middlesbrough.	Bartholomew
  Great Ormesby	Norfolk	Great Ormesby , ry. sta., on E. coast of Norfolk, 4 miles N. of Yarmouth. See ORMESBY.	Bartholomew
  GUISBROUGH	Yorkshire	Ormesby, Eston, and Normanby. Acres, 96, 862. Poor rates in 1863, £5, 770. Pop. in 1851, 12, 202; in 1861, 22, 128. Houses	Imperial
  MIDDLESBOROUGH	Yorkshire	Ormesby. The town has a head post office, † a railway station with telegraph, and some good inns; and publishes	Imperial
  NORFOLK	Norfolk	Ormesby and Rollesby-broads, 5 miles N W of Yarmouth; Stalham, Barton, Filby, and Rockland-broads, near the places whence	Imperial
  North Ormesby	Yorkshire	Ormesby , eccl. dist., Ormesby par., North-Riding Yorkshire, being the portion of Ormesby township within the parliamentary limits of Middlesbrough	Bartholomew
  Ormesby	Yorkshire	Middlesbrough, pop. 7387; vil., 3 miles SE. of Middlesbrough; P.O.; and P.O., T.O. at North Ormesby; near the vil. is Ormesby Hall, seat.	Bartholomew
  Ormesby	Norfolk	Ormesby , vil. with ry. sta. (Great Ormesby), St Margaret Ormesby with Scratby par., Norfolk, 4 miles N. of Yarmouth; P.O., T.O.; in vicinity	Bartholomew
  Ormesby St Margaret, with Scratby, and Ormesby St Michael	Norfolk	Ormesby St Margaret , with Scratby , and Ormesby St Michael , 2 pars. (ry. sta. Great Ormesby), Norfolk, 2761 ac., pop.- St Margaret	Bartholomew
  Scratby	Norfolk	coast of Norfolk, 5 miles N. of Yarmouth; in vicinity is Scratby Hall , seat. See ORMESBY, ST MARGARET WITH SCRATBY.	Bartholomew
  Upsall	Yorkshire	Upsall , township, Ormesby par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles W. of Guisbrough, 514 ac., pop. 137.	Bartholomew
  YARMOUTH, or Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	Ormesby broad, 6 miles distant. The Town-hall was built in 1716, is in the Tuscan style, and includes court	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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