We could not match "BRANSTON" 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 16 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  BRANSTON	Manor	NEWCHURCH CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find units with names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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 "BRANSTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Branston	Leicestershire	Branston .-- par., N. Leicestershire, 8 miles NE. of Melton Mowbray, 960 ac., pop. 247; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Branston	Lincolnshire	Branston , par. and ry. sta., in mid. of co. and 4 m.SE. of Lincoln, 5389 ac., pop. 1431; P.O., T.O.; contains	Bartholomew
  BRANSTON, Branstone, or Braunston	Leicestershire	BRANSTON , Branstone, or Braunston, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 7 miles N of Frisby r. station, and 8 NNE of Melton	Imperial
  Branstone	Staffordshire	Branstone , township, is par. and 2 miles SW. of Burton-on-Tent, E. Staffordshire, pop. 991; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BRANSTONE, or Branson	Staffordshire	BRANSTONE , or Branson, a township in Burton-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; on Icknield-street, the Grand Trunk canal, and the Midland	Imperial
  BRANSTON, or Branson	Lincolnshire	BRANSTON , or Branson, a parish in the district and county of Lincoln; 4 miles SE of Lincoln r. station. It includes	Imperial
  BRAUNSTON, or Branston	Rutland	Branston, a parish in Oakham district, Rutland; on the river Gwash, 2½ miles SW of Oakham r. station. It has a post	Imperial
  BURTON-UPON-TRENT	Staffordshire	Branstone, and Winshill,-the last electorally in Derby. Acres, 7,730. Real property, £62,045. Population of the whole	Imperial
  EATON	Leicestershire	Branstone, under Grantham. Acres, 2, 470. Real property, £2, 771. Pop., 421. Houses, 92. The property is divided among	Imperial
  KNIPTON	Leicestershire	Branston, under Grantham. Acres, 1, 430. Real property, £2, 233. Pop., 369. Houses, 67. The property is divided among	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Branston, Waddington, Mere, South Hyckham, North Hyckham, Thorpe-on-the-Hill, Eagle, Swinethorpe, Doddington, Skellingthorpe, Washingborough, Bardney, and Stainfield, and the extra	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	Branston Hall, Brattleby Hall, Brothertoft Hall, Bulby House, Burwell Park, Cadwell Hall, Caenby Hall, Candlesby House, Canwick, Cawkwell House, Cawood	Imperial
  MELTON-MOWBRAY	Leicestershire	Branston, Eastwell, GoadbyMarwood, Scalford, Abkettleby, Nether-Bronghton, and Broughton-Sulney-the last electorally in Notts-and the chapelry of Wycombe	Imperial
  RYKNIELD-STREET	Gloucestershire	Branston; proceeded by Little Chester, Chesterfield, and Temple-Brough, to Aldborough; and, if it went thence to the mouth of the Tyne	Imperial
  VIA DEVANA	Cambridgeshire Cheshire Essex Leicestershire	Branston, and Chesterton, to Chester. It crossed Ermine-street at Godmanchester, the Fosse way at Leicester, and Ryknield-street at Branston	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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