We could not match "SOMERCOTES" 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 13 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)
  SOMERCOTES LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	ALFRETON UD (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 "SOMERCOTES":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Somercotes, Ripley, and Swanwick. The deanery of Ashborne contains the rectories of Bentley-Fenny, Bradley, Edlaston, Mapleton, Norbury, and Thorpe	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Somercotes; the vicarages of Carlton-Magna, Cockerington-St. Leonard, Skidbrooke, and North Somercotes; and the p. curacies of Alvingham, Cockerington	Imperial
  LOUTH	Lincolnshire	Somercotes, North Somercotes, and Conisholme; and the sub-district of Tetney, containing the parishes of Yarborough, Covenham-St. Mary, Covenham	Imperial
  North Somercotes	Lincolnshire	North Somercotes , Lincolnshire, 10 miles NE. of Louth; P.O., T.O. See SOMERCOTES, NORTH.	Bartholomew
  RIDDINGS	Derbyshire	Somercotes, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Alfreton. The church was built in 1845, at a cost	Imperial
  Somercotes	Derbyshire	Somercotes , vil., Alfreton par., Derbyshire, 2 miles SE. of Alfreton; P.O.	Bartholomew
  SOMERCOTES	Derbyshire	SOMERCOTES , a village in Alfreton parish, Derby; 2 miles SE of Alfreton. It has a post-office under Alfreton, the church	Imperial
  Somercotes, North	Lincolnshire	Somercotes, North , par. and vil., Lincolnshire - par., 4752 ac. land and 3870 water, pop. 1219; vil., 10 miles NE. of Louth	Bartholomew
  SOMERCOTES (North)	Lincolnshire	SOMERCOTES (North) , a parish, with a large scattered village, in Louth district, Lincoln; on the coast, 10 miles NE of Louth	Imperial
  Somercotes, South	Lincolnshire	Somercotes, South , par. and vil., Lincolnshire - par., 2597 ac., pop. 435; vil., 2 miles S. of North Somercotes; P.O.	Bartholomew
  SOMERCOTES (South)	Lincolnshire	SOMERCOTES (South) , a parish, with a village, in Louth district, Lincoln; 8 miles NE of Louth r. station. Post town	Imperial
  South Somercotes	Lincolnshire	South Somercotes , 2 miles S. of North Somercotes and 8 miles NE. of Louth, Lincolnshire; P.O. See SOMERCOTES, SOUTH.	Bartholomew

  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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.