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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 "ROOS" (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 "ROOS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ARDCLARE, or CLONIGORMICAN	Roscommon	Roos. The tithes amount to £176. 12., one-half of which is payable to the impropriators (the Earl of Essex	Lewis:Ireland
  BALLYCULTER	Down	Roos, of which the rector is chaplain. The glebe-house was built by aid of a gift of £450 and a loan	Lewis:Ireland
  BOLTON	Northumberland	Roos; and became the property of the Collingwoods. Some remains of antiquity have been found. The township forms a curacy	Imperial
  Bracken Hill	Yorkshire	Bracken Hill , hamlet, Roos par., East-Riding Yorkshire, 5½ miles N. of Patrington.	Bartholomew
  BRACKEN-HILL	Yorkshire	BRACKEN-HILL , a hamlet in Roos parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 5½ miles N of Patrington.	Imperial
  HELMSLEY	Yorkshire	Roos; passed to the Dukes of Buckingham; was purchased, in 1685, for £90, 000, by Sir Charles Duncombe; and belongs	Imperial
  NASH POINT	Glamorgan	Roos point, and 21 S Eby E of Mumbles Head. It projects at a bend of the coast 6½ miles	Imperial
  Orphir	Orkney	Roo Point (74) along the coast, with Gruf Hill (619) and Ward Hill (880) behind-heights that command a view	Groome
  Owstwick	Yorkshire	Owstwick , township, Roos and Garton pars., East-Riding Yorkshire, 7 miles NE. of Hedon, 1336 ac., pop. 89; P.O.	Bartholomew
  OWSTWICK	Yorkshire	Roos and Garton parishes, E. R. Yorkshire; near the coast, 7 miles E N E of Hedon. It has a post	Imperial
  PATRINGTON	Yorkshire	Roos, and the township of Owstwick. Acres, 88, 872. Poor-rates in 1863, £3, 771. Pop. in 1851, 9, 407; in 1861, 9, 681. Houses	Imperial
  Roo	Galway	Roo , demesne, Kinvarradoorus par., S. co. Galway.	Bartholomew
  Roos (or Rooss)	Yorkshire	Roos (or Rooss ), par., township, and vil., East-Riding Yorkshire - par., 3623 ac., pop. 590; township, 2528 ac., pop. 534; vil., 7 miles	Bartholomew
  Rooss	Yorkshire	Rooss , Yorkshire. See ROOS.	Bartholomew
  Sanquhar	Dumfries Shire	Roos, Roose, or Ross family, cadets of the Earls of Ross, Lords of the Isles. Isabel de Ross, daughter and heiress	Groome
  Shetland	Shetland	rooing ' or plucking. The finest wool is procured from the neck and shoulders. The mutton is excellent. Considerable numbers of black	Groome
  STRANGFORD	Down	Roos and the Rev. Charles Wolseley. Near this place are the remains of two castles called Welsh's and Audeley	Lewis:Ireland
  TUNSTALL	Yorkshire	Roos, under Hull. Acres, 1,607; of which 297 are water. Real property, £1,883. Pop., 166. Houses, 30. The manor	Imperial

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