We could not match "FARNELL" 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 14 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 "FARNELL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen Railway	Aberdeenshire Angus	Farnell Road to Guthrie Junction, and makes also a junction with the Arbroath and Forfar railway at Friockheim. That railway	Groome
  Brechin	Angus	Farnell, SW by Aberlemno, W by Careston, and NW by Menmuir. Its length from E to W varies between 1 1 / 8 and 6¾ miles	Groome
  Craig	Angus	Farnell, and NW by Maryton proper. Its utmost length is 5 5 / 8 miles from ENE to WSW, viz., from	Groome
  Esk, South	Angus	Farnell, Dun, Maryton, Montrose, and Craig. The South Esk with its tributaries has some capital fishing, but it is largely	Groome
  Farnell	Angus	Farnell, a parish of E Forfarshire, whose church stands on the southern side of the pretty Den of Farnell, 4 miles	Groome
  Farnell	Angus	Farnell , par. and ry. sta. (Farnell Road), E. Forfarshire, 5703 ac., pop. 613; T.O.; the church stands on S. side	Bartholomew
  Farnell Road	Angus	Farnell Road , ry. sta., 5½ miles NE. of Guthrie Junction, Forfarshire.	Bartholomew
  Forfarshire	Angus	Farnell to Canterland in Kincardineshire- a distance of 14 miles. Similar organic remains to those already described have been obtained	Groome
  Kinnaird Castle	Angus	Farnell par., Forfarshire, on river South Esk, 3½ miles SE. of Brechin; resembles an ancient French chbteau, and stands	Bartholomew
  Kinnaird Castle	Angus	Farnell parish, Forfarshire, within 5 furlongs of the right or S bank of the South Esk river, 3½ miles	Groome
  Kinnell	Angus	Farnell, E by Craig and Lunan, S by lnverkeilor, SW by Kirkden, and W by Guthrie. Its utmost length, from	Groome
  Maryton	Angus	Farnell. It consists of three detached portions-Maryton proper, Dysart, which is separated by a part of Craig, and Grahamsfirth	Groome
  Pow		Farnell, 7½ miles north-eastward to the South Esk, 1½ mile above Montrose Basin; aspires to be called	Groome
  St Cyrus	Kincardineshire	Farnell and Kinnaird placed an Episcopal clergyman in possession of the church and refused the minister admission, nor did he preach	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.



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