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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 "BROWNSTON" (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 "BROWNSTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BALLYSAX	Kildare	Brownstone House, of G. Knox, Esq.; Ballyfair House, occupied during the races by His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant; Lark Lodge	Lewis:Ireland
  Brownestone		Brownestone . See BROWNSTONE.	Bartholomew
  Brownstone	Devon	Brownstone , vil., 3 m. NE. of Modbury, S. Devon.	Bartholomew
  BROWNSTONE	Devon	BROWNSTONE , a village and a chapelry in Modbury parish, Devon. The village stands 3 miles NE of Modbury. The chapelry	Imperial
  CULLEN	Cork	brownstone, adapted for building, is found in the parish. The principal residences are Keale House, that of J. Leader, Jun., Esq.; Stake	Lewis:Ireland
  DONOUGHPATRICK	Meath	brownstone. The gentlemen's seats are Gibbstown, that of J. N. Gerrard, Esq., situated in a well-planted demesne of about	Lewis:Ireland
  KERRY	Kerry	brownstone. Where the induration is not so great as to destroy the schistose as well as the lamellar structure, the rock	Lewis:Ireland
  KILCRUMPER	Cork	brownstone abound, and are worked to a considerable extent for manure and building. At Araglyn are the extensive woollen-mills	Lewis:Ireland
  KILLATHY, or KILLATTY	Cork	brownstone on the southern side of the river, and on the latter side there are indications of iron, which is supposed	Lewis:Ireland
  KILSHANE	Tipperary	brownstone, the latter of which is of good quality for building. Here is a small flour-mill. The principal seats	Lewis:Ireland
  LEITRIM	Cork	brownstone, and slate are found in this parish, of which the former is quarried for agricultural purposes, but the latter	Lewis:Ireland
  MODBURY	Devon	Brownstone, in the diocese of Exeter. Valne, £302.* Patron, Eton College.—The sub-district contains also four-other	Imperial
  ROSKEEN, or RUSHEEN	Cork	brownstone adapted for ordinary building purposes is found in other parts of the parish. The Blackwater is here very rapid	Lewis:Ireland
  TULLILEASE	Cork	brownstone within the limits of the parish. On the river Allua is a small oatmeal mill. Fairs are held at Tullilease	Lewis:Ireland

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