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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  RAYNES PARK LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	MERTON AND MORDEN UD (Local Government District)

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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 "RAYNES PARK":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	Park in 1872, and the Union Terrace Gardens in 1879, were laid out at a cost respectively of £4248 and £5110. The former lying on the NW outskirts of the town, near the Lunatic Asylum, is 13 acres in extent, measuring some 400 by 225 yards, and at its centre has a handsome granite fountain, presented by the master masons and workers of Aberdeen: whilst Union Terrace Gardens, with well-grown elm and ash trees, planted in 1775, had served for some years as a convenient ' toom,' and extending northwards from Union Bridge along the W side	Groome
  Fyvie	Aberdeenshire	Rayne border; north-westward to 466 near Monkshill, 587 near Gourdas, and 585 at Deers Hill. The leading rocks are greywacke and slate in the SW, Old Red sandstone over a small portion of the NW, and elsewhere greenstone or basalt, often intersected by veins of quartz, calcareous spar, hematite, etc. The soil along the banks of the Ythan is a lightish loam of great fertility, especially in the part called the Howe of Fyvie; and in other parts is extremely various-gravelly, mossy, etc. Fully foursevenths of the entire area are in tillage, one-fifteenth is under wood	Groome
  Raynes Park	Surrey	Raynes Park , ry. sta., Surrey, 1½ mile SW. of Wimbledon.	Bartholomew

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