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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 "REDESDALE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASTON-MAGNA	Worcestershire	living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £246.* Patron, Lord Redesdale. The church is very good.	Imperial
  BATSFORD, or Battisford	Gloucestershire	Redesdale. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £370.* Patron, Lord Redesdale. The church	Imperial
  Batsford Park	Gloucestershire	Batsford Park , seat of the Earl of Redesdale.	Bartholomew
  BOURTON-ON-THE-HILL	Gloucestershire	Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £675.* Patron, Lord Redesdale. The church is good; and there are school charities £112.	Imperial
  GOLDEN POTS	Northumberland	Watling-street, midway between Redesdale and Chew-Green. They appear to have been pedestals, and are 2 feet in diameter.	Imperial
  LEMINGTON (LOWER)	Gloucestershire	Redesdale. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £27. Patron, Lord Redesdale	Imperial
  NORTHUMBERLAND	Northumberland	Redesdale. Northumberland then was practically part of Scotland, linking its fortunes with those of the Scottish kings; and it continued	Imperial
  Rede, (or Reed)	Northumberland	Redesdale to the North Tyne at Reedsmouth ry. sta.; one of the last Border skirmishes took place at Redswire in 1575.	Bartholomew
  Redesdale	Northumberland	Redesdale , valley of river Rede, Northumberland; extends from the Border at Carter Fell to the North Tyne at Reedsmouth, and is 21 miles	Bartholomew
  REDESDALE	Northumberland	REDESDALE , the valley of the river Reed, in Northumberland; comprising the parishes of Elsdon and Corsenside, and extending from the boundary	Imperial
  Roxburghshire	Roxburghshire	Redesdale, to near the junction of the Liddel with the Esk. The latter covers the greater part of Liddesdale and the surrounding	Groome
  WIDFORD	Oxfordshire	living is a rectory, united with Swinbrook, in the diocese of oxford. Value, £200.* Patron, Lord Redesdale. The church is ancient.	Imperial

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