We could not match "BRINDLEY" 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 13 possible matches we have found for you:

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• 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 "BRINDLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ACTON	Cheshire	Brindley, Henhull, Hurleston, Poole, Stoke, Cholmon destone, Aston-juxta-Mondrum, and Worleston. Acres, 15,542. Real property, £2,978. Pop. 3,125. Houses	Imperial
  BRIDGEWATER CANAL	Cheshire Lancashire	Brindley, for the first Duke of Bridgewater, in 1758-65. It goes from Manchester westsouth-westward, past Stretford, Altrincham, and PrestonBrook	Imperial
  Brindley	Cheshire	Brindley , township, Acton par., W. Cheshire, 4 miles NW. of Nantwich, 1098 ac., pop. 185.	Bartholomew
  BRINDLEY	Cheshire	BRINDLEY , a township in Acton parish, Cheshire; 4½ miles WNW of Nantwich. Acres, 1,090. Real property, £1,774. Pop., 227. Houses	Imperial
  Brindley Ford	Staffordshire	Brindley Ford , hamlet, on N. horder of Staffordshire, 4 miles N. of Burslem; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BRINDLEY-FORD	Staffordshire	BRINDLEY-FORD , a locality, with recently erected ironworks, on the north border of Staffordshire; in the Biddulph-valley, 4 miles	Imperial
  Brindleys	Yorkshire	Brindleys , hamlet, in par. and 2 miles N. of Howden, East-Riding Yorkshire.	Bartholomew
  BRINDLEYS	Yorkshire	BRINDLEYS , an extra-parochial tract in Howden district, E. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles N of Howden.	Imperial
  Chesterfield	Derbyshire	Brindley constructed the C. Canal. C. has a free grammar-school, founded by Queen Elizabeth, and an institute of mining	Bartholomew
  DROITWICH	Worcestershire	Brindley, going to the Severn, at the mouth of the Salwarp, and falling 56½ feet with eight locks. It is supposed	Imperial
  HOWDEN	Yorkshire	Brindleys. Acres, 28, 443. Pop., 6, 934. Houses, 1, 496.—The district comprehends also the sub-district of Holme	Imperial
  Manchester	Lancashire	Brindley), who in 1758 began the system of inland navigation, and gave Manchester a splendid waterway for traffic; (2.) the introduction	Bartholomew
  Thornsett	Derbyshire	miles NW. of Chapel-en-le-Frith; birthplace of James Brindley (1716-1772), the canal engineer. See BEARD, &c.	Bartholomew

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