We could not match "CASTLE" 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 53 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you typed a postcode, it needs to be a full postcode: some letters, then some numbers, then more letters. Old-style postal districts like "SE3" are not precise enough (if you know the location but do not have a precise postcode or placename, see below):
  
  
  
  
  
• If you are looking for a place-name, it needs to be the name of a town or village, or possibly a district within a town. We do not know about individual streets or buildings, unless they give their names to a larger area (though you might try our collections of Historical Gazetteers and British travel writing). Do not include the name of a county, region or nation with the place-name: if we know of more than one place in Britain with the same name, you get to choose the right one from a list or map:
  
  
  
  
  
• 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)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	ABERGAVENNY MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH UD (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BANBURY MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BEDFORD MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BERWICK UPON TWEED MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BRIDGNORTH MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CAMBRIDGE MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CARLISLE MB/CB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	COLCHESTER MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CONWAY MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	COWES UD (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	DERBY CB/MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	DOVER MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	DUDLEY CB/MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	EAST HAM MB/UD/CB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	FARNHAM UD (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	FLINT MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	HINCKLEY UD (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	KENDAL MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	KENILWORTH UD (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	LANCASTER MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	LEWES MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	LINCOLN CB/MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	WINDSOR MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	NEWARK MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	NORTHAMPTON CB/MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	NORTHWICH UD (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	OSWESTRY MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	PONTEFRACT MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	RAYLEIGH UD (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	READING CB/MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	SCARBOROUGH MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	SWANSEA CB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	TAMWORTH MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	TAUNTON MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	TIVERTON MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	WELSHPOOL MB (Local Government District)
  CASTLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	WORTHING MB (Local Government District)

  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. The following descriptive gazetteer entries exactly match your search term:

  Place name	County	Type of entry	Source
  Castle		another name for	Bartholomew
  Castle		a hamlet	Groome
  Castle		a small bay	Groome
  Castle		hamlet	Bartholomew
  Castle		island	Bartholomew
  Castle		part of	Bartholomew
  Castle		a hamlet	Groome
  Castle		place	Bartholomew
  Castle		hamlet	Bartholomew
  Castle		island	Bartholomew
  Castle		hamlet	Bartholomew
  CASTLE		a hamlet	Imperial
  CASTLE		a township	Imperial
  CASTLE			Imperial
  Castle or Kismull		a hamlet and a little bay	Groome

  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.