We could not match "BECTIVE" 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 12 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 "BECTIVE" (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 "BECTIVE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BALSOON	Meath	Bective Bridge, to Dunshaughlin. The land is principally under tillage; the soil is fertile, and the system of agriculture is improved	Lewis:Ireland
  Bective	Meath	Bective , par., seat, and ry. sta., mid. co. Meath, 3 miles S. of Navan, on river Boyne, 3385 ac., pop. 385. Bective	Bartholomew
  BECTIVE	Meath	BECTIVE , a parish, in the barony of UPPER NAVAN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S. W.) from	Lewis:Ireland
  Bective Bridge	Meath	Bective Bridge , vil., 3 miles S. of Bective ry. sta., mid. co. Meath.	Bartholomew
  BECTIVE-BRIDGE	Meath	BECTIVE-BRIDGE , a village, in the parish of BALSOON, barony of LOWER DEECE, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER	Lewis:Ireland
  DUNSANY	Meath	Bective-bridge; containing 291 inhabitants. It comprises 899 statute acres, and contains a constabulary police station. The castle, which was erected	Lewis:Ireland
  Kells	Meath	Hill of Lloyd," near the town, is a lofty pillar, 100 ft. high, erected by the first Earl of Bective.	Bartholomew
  KELLS	Meath	Bective. A court of record was held before the sovereign, with jurisdiction to the amount of 10 marks; but no proceedings	Lewis:Ireland
  KILMESSAN	Meath	Bective-bridge; containing 812 inhabitants, of which number, 146 are in the village, which contains 25 houses. It comprises 3184 statute	Lewis:Ireland
  MEATH	Meath	Bective, Lismullen, and Ardbraccan are very large and valuable: and from the numerous ornamental plantations throughout every part of the county	Lewis:Ireland
  NAVAN	Meath	Bective: the chapel is a handsome Grecian edifice, now in course of erection upon an extensive scale; there is also	Lewis:Ireland
  RATAINE, or RATHYNE	Meath	Bective-Bridge to Athboy; containing 370 inhabitants, and comprising 1576 statute acres of profitable land. It is a rectory, in the diocese	Lewis:Ireland

  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.