We could not match "THICKET" 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 12 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. There are no units called "THICKET" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• 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 "THICKET":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ard	Perthshire	thickets, knolls, and crags, lay the bed of a broad mountain lake. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural	Groome
  Cromarty Firth	Cromarty Ross Shire	thickets of furze and pine. A multitude of shapeless crags lie scattered along the base, and we hear the noise	Groome
  DUDDON (The)	Cumberland Lancashire	thickets, nor by rocky bands Held, but in radiant progress toward the deep, Where mightiest rivers into powerless sleep Sink	Imperial
  DUNSTABLE	Bedfordshire	thickets; but was resettled or rebuilt by Henry I., who destroyed the woods and thickets, gave great encouragement to peaceable	Imperial
  Inchmahome	Perthshire	thicket of wood you see the remains of a monastery of great beauty, the design and workmanship exquisite. You wander	Groome
  LEWES	Sussex	thicket of ash trees, and with ivy; and, though probably of earlier date than the gate-house, are of a date	Imperial
  LLANFAES, or LLANVAES	Anglesey	thicket, likewise within Penmon, is a square fort, with a circular tower at each angle; was founded, in 1098, by Hugh	Imperial
  MAIDENHEAD	Berkshire	thicket to the W of it was so specially perilous that an extra salary was, for some time, given to the local	Imperial
  OVINGHAM	Northumberland	thickets. Prndhoe Castle is a grand feature, but will be noticed in its own alphabetical place. Coal is largely worked	Imperial
  St Mary's Loch	Peebles Shire Selkirkshire	thicket. dell. nor copse you spy Where living thing concealed might lie; Nor point, retiring. hides a dell, where swain	Groome
  THICKET, or Thickhed	Yorkshire	THICKET , or Thickhed, a place in Weldrake parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 8 miles SE of York. A Benedictine nunnery was founded	Imperial
  Thicket Priory	Yorkshire	Thicket Priory , seat, Wheldrake par., in co. and 8 miles SE. of York; a nunnery was founded here in the time	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.