We could not match "GOGAR" 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 18 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 "GOGAR":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Almond	Lanarkshire Midlothian West Lothian	Gogar Burn on the right below, Kirkliston. Its lower reaches traverse a picturesque wooded ravine, and between Midcalder and Kirkliston	Groome
  Catstane	Midlothian	Gogar Burn, 3½ miles WNW of Corstorphine village. Some believe it to commemorate the slaughter, near the spot, of Constantin	Groome
  Catstane	Midlothian	Catstane , ancient monumental stone, on peninsula between river Almond and Gogar Burn, 3½ miles NW. of Corstorphine, Edinburghshire.	Bartholomew
  Corstorphine	Midlothian	Gogar, is bounded N by Cramond, E by St Cuthberts, S by Colinton, SW by Currie and Ratho, and W by Ratho	Groome
  Gogar	Midlothian	Gogar House, Gogar Burn House, Gogar Mount , and Gogar Park; in vicinity of sta. is the seat of Gogar Bank	Bartholomew
  Gogar	Midlothian	Gogar House, Gogar Burn House, Gogar Mount; Gogar Park, Gogar Green, Gogar Mains, Gogar Bank, Gogar Nursery, and Over Gogarall	Groome
  Gogar Burn	Midlothian	Gogar Burn , stream, Edinburghshire; flows 13 miles NE. and NW., and joins the Almond 1¾ miles NW. of Gogar	Bartholomew
  Gogar House	Perthshire	Gogar House , seat, Logie par., Perthshire, 3 miles SE. of Bridge of Allan.	Bartholomew
  Hanley Lodge	Midlothian	Hanley Lodge , seat, in W. of Corstorphine par., Edinburghshire, 1½ mile from Gogar sta.	Bartholomew
  Hermiston	Midlothian	mile SSE of Gogar station, and 1 5 / 8 N by W of Currie village, under which it has a post office.	Groome
  Kellerstain	Midlothian	Gogar station. Its owner, James Maitland Logan White, Esq. (b. 1848; sue. 1877), holds 357 acres in the shire, valued	Groome
  Kellerstain	Midlothian	Kellerstain , seat, Ratho par., in co. and 5½ miles W. of Edinburgh, near Gogar sta.	Bartholomew
  Kirkliston	Midlothian West Lothian	Gogar Burn, flows ¾ mile north-north-eastward along all the Cramond boundary. The Union Canal goes 2¼ miles	Groome
  Kirknewton	Midlothian	Gogar Burn rise in the interior, and drain the north-eastern district, one of them, over a distance of 2 miles	Groome
  Millburn Tower	Midlothian	Millburn Tower , seat, Ratho par., Edinburghshire, near Gogar ry. sta., 5 miles W. of Edinburgh.	Bartholomew
  Millburn Tower	Midlothian	Gogar station and 5½ miles WSW of Edinburgh. A castellated tower, with a long range of lower building attached	Groome
  Ratho	Midlothian	Gogar Burn; but the Union Canal (1822) goes 3¼ miles north-westward and westward across the interior. .With a gentle	Groome
  Restalrig	Midlothian	Gogar to Andrew Logan of Coalfield, in 1602 his lands of Fast Castle to Archibald Douglas, and in 1604 his barony	Groome

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