We could not match "BURRAY" 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 17 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 "BURRAY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Burray	Orkney	Burray, an island and a parish in the S of Orkney. The island, lying between South Ronaldshay and Pomona, is separated	Groome
  Burray	Orkney	Burray , one of the Orkney islands, 3¾ miles long, par. of South Ronaldshay, pop -- 685; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Glimsholm	Orkney	Orkney, in the W end of Holm Sound, adjacent to the NW corner of Burray, and 2½ miles W of Roseness in Pomona.	Groome
  Holm	Orkney	Burray, and varying in breadth from 1½ mile to 2½ miles, contains Lambholm Island towards its centre and Glimsholm	Groome
  Hoy	Orkney	Burray and South Ronaldshay islands by Scapa Flow, 5½ to 11 miles broad; and from Caithness by the Pentland	Groome
  Hunda Island	Orkney	Hunda Island , South Ronaldshay par., Orkney, off W. coast of Burray island, pop. 8.	Bartholomew
  Kirkwall	Orkney	Burray in South Ronaldshay. Pop. (1871) 11, 497, (1881) 12, 251, of whom 1822 were communicants of the Church of Scotland	Groome
  Kirkwall	Orkney	Burray, for firing at a boat in which the Earl was crossing Holm Sound. The structure is a very poor	Groome
  Orkney	Orkney	Burray with the smaller islands of Glimps Holm and Hunda; on the S are the Pentland Skerries, and SE is Swona	Groome
  Panhope	Orkney	Burray island, it enters from the SE of Scapa Flow; penetrates 1½ mile west-south-westward, with a mean	Groome
  Pomona or Mainland	Orkney	Burray, South Ronaldshay, Flotta, Hoy, and some smaller islands. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 24¼ miles	Groome
  Ronaldshay, South	Orkney	Burray, Hunda, Swona, and Pentland Skerries), 15,062 ac., pop. 3314; island, pop. 2557. South Ronaldshay island is the most	Bartholomew
  Ronaldshay, South	Orkney	Burray chapel of ease, South Ronaldshay Free church, and the U.P. churches of Burray and South Ronaldshay. Five schools-Burray	Groome
  Scapa Flow	Orkney	Burray and South Ronaldshay on the E, the Pentland Firth on the S, the island of Hoy on the W, and the small	Groome
  Shetland	Shetland	Burray, one of the Out Skerries (43; 59), East Burra (239; 215), West Burra (442; 427), Fair Isle (226; 214), Fetlar	Groome
  St Margaret's Hope	Orkney	Burray. It is one of the safest and best harbours for small vessels in the kingdom. A fishery here, which	Groome
  Water Sound	Orkney	Water Sound , between Burray and South Ronaldshay islands, Orkney.	Bartholomew

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