We could not match "BICTON" 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 15 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 "BICTON" (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 "BICTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bicton	Devon	Bicton , par., S. Devon, on river Otter, 4 miles SW. of Sidmouth, 1294 ac., pop. 157. Bicton House , with magnificent	Bartholomew
  BICTON	Shropshire	BICTON , a chapelry in St. Chad and St. Alkmond parishes, Salop; on the river Severn, and on Watlingstreet, near the Shrewsbury	Imperial
  BICTON	Shropshire	BICTON , a township and a parochial division in Clun parish, Salop. The township lies 4½ miles SSW of Bishops	Imperial
  BICTON	Devon	BICTON , a parish in St. Thomas district, Devon; on the river Otter, near the coast, 4 miles WSW of Sidmouth	Imperial
  Bicton, or Ediclift	Shropshire	Bicton , or Ediclift , parochial div., Clnn par., S. Shropshire, 4½ miles SW. of Bishops Castle.	Bartholomew
  Bicton Trinity	Shropshire	Bicton Trinity , eccl. dist., St Chad and St Alkmond par., N. Shropshire, on river Severn, 3 miles NW. of Shrewsbury	Bartholomew
  CHAD (St.)	Shropshire	Bicton and Calcott, Shelton and Oxon, Whitley and Welbatch, and Woodcote and Horton. Post Town, Shrewsbury. Rated property, £36,014. Pop. 8,318. Houses	Imperial
  CLUN	Shropshire	Bicton, containing the townships of Ediclift, Bicton, Whitcott Keyset, and Shadwell; the division of Newcastle, containing the townships of Newcastle	Imperial
  DEVONSHIRE, or Devon	Devon	Bicton, Poltimore, Bishops-Court, Huish House, Canonleigh, Ugbrooke, Blatchford, Courtland, Creedy, Escott, Haldon House, Killerton, Mamhead, Manaton, Maristow, Netherton House	Imperial
  FITZ	Shropshire	Bicton Heath, under Shrewsbury. Acres, 1, 512. Real property, £3, 077. Pop., 323. Houses, 53. The property is divided	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Bicton, Leaton, Oxoin, Shrewsbury-St. George, Shrewsbury-St. Giles, Shrewsbury-St. Julian, Shrewsbury-St. Mary, Shrewsbury-St. Michael, Coleham, and Uffington	Imperial
  SHREWSBURY	Shropshire	Bicton, Frankwell, and Oxon and Shelton. The livings of Holy Cross, St. Alkmond, and St. Chad are vicarages, and the other	Imperial
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	Bicton, Bishops-Castle, Buntingsdale, Buildwas, Court of Hill, Chetwynd, Chilton, Cloverley, Condover, Decker, Dudmaston, Gatacre, Halston, Hatton, Hodnet, Isle of Up-Rossall	Imperial
  Yettington	Devon	Yettington , hamlet, Bicton par., Devon, 4½ miles NE. of Exmouth.	Bartholomew
  YETTINGTON	Devon	YETTINGTON , a hamlet in Bicton parish, Devon; 4¼ miles WSW of Sidmouth. Pop., 137.	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.



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