We could not match "WESTPORT ST MARY" 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 6 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 "WESTPORT ST MARY" (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 "WESTPORT ST MARY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CLADDAGH	Galway	Westport, Sligo, and other places. A very convenient pier has been constructed for the boats belonging to this place, and the Commissioners of Public Works have advanced £300 on loan towards continuing the quay wall. With the exception of two Protestant families that settled among them during the last century, the inhabitants are all Roman Catholics; and their chapel is attached to a Dominican friary nearly in the centre of the village. This friary occupies the site of the ancient convent of St. Mary	Lewis:Ireland
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	St. James, Cheltenham-St. John, Cheltenham-St. Luke, Cheltenham-St. Mark, Cheltenham-St. Paul, Cheltenham-St. Peter, Cheltenham-Christchurch, Cheltenham-Trinity, Deerhurst, Forthampton, Leckhampton-St. Philip and St. James, Oxenton, Seven-hampton, Boddington, Teekesbury-Trinity, Tredington, Walton-Cardiff, and Gretton. The deanery of Bristol comprises the livings in the city of Bristol, or connected with it; the livings in Bedminster and in Clifton; the rectories of Compton-Greenfield, Filton, Frenchay, Littleton-on-Severn, and Winterbourne; the vicarages of Abbots-Leigh, Almondsbury, Elberton, Henbury, Olveston, Stapleton, and Stoke-Gifford; and the p. curacies of Alveston, Aust, Northwick, Redwick, Hallen, Horfield, Bishopston	Imperial
  Lanark	Lanarkshire	Lanark (Cymric llanerch, `a forest glade'), a town and a parish in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire. The capital of	Groome
  MALMSBURY	Wiltshire	Mary till the act of 1832; sends now only one member; is not regulated by the municipal act; and, under a charter of William III., is nominally governed by an alderman, a deputy alderman, and eleven capital burgesses. The old borough comprised only 130 acres; but the new borough, for parlilmentary representation under the act of 1832, comprises the entire parishes of Malmsbury, Westport-St	Imperial
  Westport St Mary	Wiltshire	Westport St Mary *, par., Wilts, on W. side of Malmesbury, 2036 ac., pop. 1867.	Bartholomew
  WESTPORT-ST. MARY	Wiltshire	WESTPORT-ST. MARY , a parish in Malmsbury district, Wilts; contiguous to Malmsbury town, within Malmsbury borough, and 6 miles SW by W of Minety	Imperial

  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.



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