You searched for "GORLESTON" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 12 possible matches we have found for you:

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• 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)
  GORLESTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	GREAT YARMOUTH MB/CB (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. 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 "GORLESTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Gorleston	Suffolk	Gorleston , coast par., E. Suffolk, in S. suburbs and within the borough of Great Yarmouth, 2175 ac., pop. 9008; P.O., T.O.; on Gorleston	Bartholomew
  GORLESTON	Suffolk	GORLESTON , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Mutford district, Suffolk. The village stands near the mouth of the river	Imperial
  HOLM	Suffolk	outside the Gorleston channel. It is connected with the Corton shoal; and the two are 6 miles long, and buoyed.	Imperial
  Little Yarmouth	Suffolk	Little Yarmouth , part of Gorleston par., Suffolk, in S. of bor. of Yarmouth.	Bartholomew
  MUTFORD	Suffolk	Gorleston, containing the parishes of Gorleston, Belton, Bradwell, Burgh-Castle, Fritton, and Hopton. Acres, 35, 490. Poor-rates in 1863, £7, 459. Pop. in 1851, 20, 163; in 1861, 24,050. Houses	Imperial
  Southtown (or Little Yarmouth)	Suffolk	Yarmouth ), former par., now in Gorleston par., Suffolk, on river Yare, opposite Great Yarmouth, and within bor. of Yarmouth; P.O.	Bartholomew
  SOUTHTOWN, or Little Yarmouth	Suffolk	Gorleston parish, Suffolk; on the river Yare, opposite Great Yarmouth, and within Yarmouth borough. Real property, £9,386. Pop. in 1851, 1,412; in 1861, 1,714. Houses	Imperial
  West Town	Suffolk	West Town , Gorleston par., Suffolk, in borough of Yarmouth.	Bartholomew
  WEST TOWN	Suffolk	Gorleston parish, Suffolk; near Yarmouth town and r. station. Post town, Yarmouth. The statistics are returned with the parish; and the living	Imperial
  Yarmouth (Great)	Norfolk	Gorleston par., Suffolk), 3685 ac., pop. 46,159; 4 Banks, 5 newspapers. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday . Yarmouth is the chief	Bartholomew
  YARMOUTH, or Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	Gorleston and Southtown. A British school is in St. George's-road. A school for the Church South-end mission	Imperial

  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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