We could not match "UPWELL" 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 11 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. There are no units called "UPWELL" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• 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 "UPWELL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Christchurch	Cambridgeshire	Christchurch , in par. and 5 miles from Upwell, Cambridgeshire; P.O.	Bartholomew
  DOWNHAM, or Downham-Market	Norfolk	Upwell,-the last partly in Cambridgeshire. Acres, 28, 686. Pop., 8, 878. Houses, 1,883. The district comprehends also the sub-district	Imperial
  Exmoor (or Euximoor)	Cambridgeshire	Exmoor (or Euximoor ), vil., Upwell par., Cambridgeshire, 8 miles SE. of Wisbech.	Bartholomew
  Mirmaud	Cambridgeshire	Mirmaud , Upwell par., Cambridgeshire, 5½ miles SE. of Wisbech; a small priory stood here.	Bartholomew
  MIRMAUD	Cambridgeshire	Upwell parish, Cambridge; 5½ miles SE of Wisbeach. A small Gilbertine priory stood here; and was annexed, in the time	Imperial
  Nordelph	Norfolk	Nordelph , vil., Upwell par., Norfolk, 4 miles SW. of Downhara Market; P.O.	Bartholomew
  OUTWELL	Cambridgeshire Norfolk	Upwell, and 5 miles S S E of Wisbeach r. station; and has a post-office under Wisbeach. The parish	Imperial
  Upwell	Cambridgeshire Norfolk	Upwell , par. and vil., Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, on river Nen, 6 miles SE. of Wisbech, 16,454 ac., pop. 3438; P.O., T.O.; was once	Bartholomew
  UPWELL	Cambridgeshire Norfolk	UPWELL , a village and a sub-district in Wisbeach district, and a parish partly also in Downham district, Cambridge and Norfolk	Imperial
  WELNEY	Cambridgeshire Norfolk	Upwell parish, Cambridge and Norfolk; on the old Bedford river, 6 miles NE by E of Manea r. station, and 10 ESE of March	Imperial
  WISBEACH	Cambridgeshire	Upwell. Acres, 131,585. Poor rates in 1863, £22,609. Pop. in 1851, 36,215; in 1861, 33,323. Houses	Imperial

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



• 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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.