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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 "WIVENHOE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CLACTON (Great)	Essex	Wivenhoe r. station, and 13 SE of Colchester. It has a post office under Colchester, and a fair on 29 June	Imperial
  CLACTON (Little)	Essex	Wivenhoe r. station, and 11 SE of Colchester. It has a post office under Colchester, and a fair on 25 July	Imperial
  COLCHESTER	Essex	Wivenhoe railways, 21½ miles NE of Chelmsford. The Colne descends hence 9 miles south-south-eastward to the sea; is navigable	Imperial
  DONYLAND (East)	Essex	Wivenhoe railway, 3½ miles SSE of Colchester. It has a post office under Colchester. Acres, 1, 067. Real property	Imperial
  ESSEX	Essex	Wivenhoe, and to Harwich; another line, on the W, goes north-north-eastward to Loughton, and will be prolonged to Dunmow	Imperial
  FINGRINGHOE	Essex	Wivenhoe r. station, and 4 SSE of Colchester; and has a post office under Colchester, and a fair on Easter	Imperial
  FRATING	Essex	Wivenhoe r. station, and 6 ESE of Colchester. It has a post office under Colchester. Acres, 1, 237. Real property	Imperial
  HYTHE	Essex	Wivenhoe railway, 1 mile. SSE of Colchester. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Colchester	Imperial
  LANGENHOE	Essex	Wivenhoe r. station, and 5¾ S by E of Colchester. Post-town, Abberton, under Colchester. Acres, 2,104. Real	Imperial
  LEXDEN	Essex	Wivenhoe, containing the parishes of Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea; the sub-district of Peldon, containing the parishes of Peldon, Great Wigborough	Imperial
  PELDON	Essex	Wivenhoe r. station, and 5½ S by W of Colchester; and has a post-office under Colchester. Acres, 2, 186. Real	Imperial
  Roman	Essex	Roman , river, Essex; rises 3 miles NE. of Coggeshall, and flows 11 miles SB. to the Colne at Wivenhoe.	Bartholomew
  ROMAN (The)	Essex	rising 3 miles N N E of Coggeshall; and running about 11 miles south-east-ward to the Colne at Wivenhoe.	Imperial
  TENDRING HUNDRED RAILWAY	Essex	Wivenhoe, opened in 1863; the second, 1 mile, into Colchester, opened in 1866; the third, 14 miles, to Weeley and Walton	Imperial
  WIGBOROUGH (Great)	Essex	Wivenhoe r. station, and 7 SSW of Colchester. It includes part of Tiptree-Heath chapelry; and its Post town is Peldon	Imperial
  Wivenhoe	Essex	Wivenhoe , town, riverport, and par. with ry. sta. (Wyvenhoe), Essex, on river Colne, 4 miles SE. of Colchester, 1549 ac., pop. 2280; P.O., T.O. The town	Bartholomew
  WIVENHOE	Essex	WIVENHOE , a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Lexden district, Essex. The town stands on the river	Imperial
  Wyvenhoe	Essex	Wyvenhoe , ry. sta., Essex, 4 miles SE. of Colchester, in vicinity are Wyvenhoe Hall and Wyvenhoe Park , seats. See WIVENHOE.	Bartholomew

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