We could not match "MEARE" 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 20 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 "MEARE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ashby-Mears	Northamptonshire	Ashby-Mears , par. and seat, Northamptonshire, 3 miles SW. of Wellingborough, 1890 ac., pop. 504; P.O.	Bartholomew
  ASHBY-MEARS, or Mears-Ashby	Northamptonshire	MEARS , or Mears-Ashby, a parish in Wellingborough district, Northampton; 3 miles N by W of Castle-Ashby r. station	Imperial
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	Meare, Moorlinch, Othery, Shapwick, and Weston-Zoyland; and the p. curacies of Burtle, Glastonbury-St. John, Glastonbury-St. Benedict, Godney	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Mears of London in 1796. It contains a vestibule, a main hall, and a number of smaller apartments. The large	Groome
  Godney	Somerset	dist. and hamlet, Meare par., mid. Somerset -- dist., pop. 387; hamlet, on river Brue, 4½ miles NW. of Glastonbury.	Bartholomew
  GODNEY	Somerset	Meare parish, Somerset; on the river Brue, and on the Mid Somerset railway, 4½ miles WN W of Glastonbury	Imperial
  HENTON	Somerset	Meare parish, Somerset. The hamlet lies near the Mendip hills, 4 miles W of Wells r. station. The chapelry was constituted	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Mears of Whitechapel; and was hung in the central tower in 1835. The nave is divided by piers, with unfilleted	Imperial
  MEAR	Cornwall	MEAR , a place in the NE of Cornwall; on Bude bay 2 miles NW of Stratton.	Imperial
  Meare	Somerset	Meare , par. and vil. (ry. sta. Ashcott and Meare), Somerset, on river Brue, 3 miles NW. of Glastonbury, 8269 ac., pop. 1409; P.O.; the manor	Bartholomew
  MEARE	Somerset	MEARE , a village and a parish in Wells district, Somerset. The village stands on a quondam island, near the river	Imperial
  Meares Court	Westmeath	Meares Court , seat, 3 miles SW. of Ballynacarrigy, W. co. Westmeath.	Bartholomew
  Mear Lake	Cornwall	Mear Lake , bathing-place, nr. Bude Haven, Cornwall.	Bartholomew
  Mears Ashby	Northamptonshire	Mears Ashby , par. and vil., Northamptonshire, 3 miles SW. of Wellingborough and 10 miles NE. of Northampton, 1890 ac., pop. 504; P.O.; in vicinity	Bartholomew
  NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, or Northampton	Northamptonshire	Mears-Ashby Hall, Moreton-Pinkney Manor, Moulton Grange, Newnham H all, Norton Hall, Orlingbury House, Paston Hall, Pipewell Hall, Priory	Imperial
  RATHCONRATH	Westmeath	Meares Court is the seat of J. Devenish Meares, Esq.; Glencarry, of R. H. Kelly, Esq.; Rathcaslin, of T. Banon	Lewis:Ireland
  Stileway	Somerset	Stileway , hamlet, Meare par., Somerset, 3 miles NW. of Glastonbury.	Bartholomew
  STILEWAY	Somerset	STILEWAY. a hamlet in Meare parish, Somerset; 3¼ miles NW of Glastonbury.	Imperial
  Westhay	Somerset	Westhay , hamlet, Meare par., Somerset, 4 miles NW. of Glastonbury.	Bartholomew
  WESTHAY	Somerset	WESTHAY , a hamlet in Meare parish, Somerset; 4¼ miles NNW of Glastonbury.	Imperial

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