We could not match "OATHLAW" 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 15 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 "OATHLAW":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberlemno	Angus	Oathlaw through which the Lemno flows, and to have had its church where that stream enters the South Esk. It is bounded	Groome
  Aikenhauld	Angus	Aikenhauld , site of ancient church, Oathlaw par., Forfarshire.	Bartholomew
  Aikenhauld	Angus	Oathlaw parish, Forfarshire, a short distance below Finhaven Castle. The church was probably parochial: and the walls of its burying	Groome
  Battle-Dykes	Angus	Oathlaw parish, Forfarshire. It measured about 2970 feet in length, 1850 in breadth, and 80 acres in area, and is now a well	Groome
  Battle-Dykes	Angus	Battle-Dykes , farm with traces of Roman camp, Oathlaw par., Forfarshire.	Bartholomew
  Esk, South	Angus	Oathlaw, Aberlemno, Careston, Brechin, Farnell, Dun, Maryton, Montrose, and Craig. The South Esk with its tributaries has some capital fishing	Groome
  Finhaven	Angus	Oathlaw and Aberlemno; and well on into the present century the former parish was oftener called Finhaven than Oathlaw. The church	Groome
  Forfar	Angus	Oathlaw, Rescobie, and Tannadice, the quoad sacra parishes of Clova, Forfar St James, Kirriemuir-South, and Glenprosen. Pop. (1871) 27,694, (1881) 35, 201, of whom	Groome
  Forfarshire	Angus	Oathlaw parish, on Drumsturdy Moor in Monifieth parish, and on Dundee Law. Ancient hill forts are traceable on White Caterthun	Groome
  Kirriemuir	Angus	Oathlaw, SE by Forfar and Glamis, S by Glamis, SW by Airlie, and W and NW by Kingoldrum, having an almost	Groome
  Newbarns	Angus	Newbarns , seat, Oathlaw par., Forfarshire, 4 miles E. of Kirriemuir.	Bartholomew
  Oathlaw	Angus	Oathlaw , par., mid. Forfarshire, on river South Esk, 5274 ac., pop. 440; the church is 4½ m. NE. of Forfar	Bartholomew
  Oathlaw	Angus	Oathlaw, a parish in the centre of Forfarshire, whose church stands 4½ miles NNE of the post-town, Forfar	Groome
  Rescobie	Angus	Oathlaw, Aberlemno, and Guthrie; E by Kirkden; S by Kirkden, Dunnichen, and Forfar; and W by Kirriemuir. Its utmost length	Groome
  Tannadice	Angus	Oathlaw, SW by Kirriemuir, and W and NW by Cortachy. Its utmost length, from N to S, is 8 5 / 8 miles	Groome

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• 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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