We could not match "ADLINGTON" 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 16 possible matches we have found for you:

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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 "ADLINGTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Adlington		Adlington .-- township, ry. sta., and seat, Prestbury par., E. Chesh., on river Bollin, 5 miles N. of Macclesfield, 3899 ac. (38 water	Bartholomew
  Adlington		Adlington , township with ry. sta., eccl. dist. (Christchurch), and seat, N. Lancashire, 3½ miles SE. of Chorley, 1064 ac., pop. 3258; eccl	Bartholomew
  ADLINGTON		ADLINGTON , a township in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the river Bollin and the Northwestern railway, 5 miles N of Macclesfield	Imperial
  ADLINGTON		ADLINGTON , a township and a chapelry in Standish parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Bolton and Preston railway, near	Imperial
  BRADENHAM (East)		Adlington, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £278.* Patron, H. S. Adlington, Esq. The church	Imperial
  CHARNOCK-HEATH		Adlington station, 2½ miles SE by S of Chorley. Acres, 1,596. Real property, £4,207; of which	Imperial
  CHESHIRE		Adlington, Bolesworth, Brereton, Bromborough, Bramhall, Henbury, Dukinfield, Capesthorne, Hyde, Hatherton, Lyme, Marbury, Netherlegh, Mollington, Marple, Poole, Tatton, Willington, Rode, Mere	Imperial
  HOLME-HALE		Adlington. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £685. * Patron, the Rev. H. Milne. The church	Imperial
  HOPE-GREEN		HOPE-GREEN , a hamlet in Adlington township, Prestbury parish, Cheshire; 5 miles N by W of Macclesfield.	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE		Adlington Hall, Aldcliffe Hall, Alder Grange, Alkincoates, Alkrington, Aldingham Hall, Allerton Tower, Alston, Apsley House, Arden House, Ashworth Hall, Astley	Imperial
  MACCLESFIELD		Adlington, Butley, Mottram-St. Andrew, Fallybroom, and Upton, in Prestbury parish; the subdistrict of Rainow, containing the townships of Rainow	Imperial
  MANCHESTER		Adlington, Charnock-Richard, and Coppul. The archdeaconry of Lancaster comprises four deaneries of Amounderness, and one of Tunstall. One deanery	Imperial
  POTT-SHRIGLEY		Adlington r. station, and 4 N N E of Macclesfield. Post-town, Bollington, under Macclesfield. Acres, 1, 719. Real property	Imperial
  PRESTBURY		Adlington, Butley, Mottram, St. Andrew, Fallybroom, Upton, Tytherington, Hurdsfield, Bollington, Pott-Shrigley, Lyme-Handley, Kettleshulme, Rainow, Macclesfield, Macclesfield-Forest, Sutton	Imperial
  STANDISH		Adlington, Coppull, and Charnock-Richard are separate benefices. There are an endowed grammar-school with £114 a year, an endowed	Imperial
  White Bear (Adlington)		White Bear ( Adlington ), ry. sta., SW. Lancashire, 3 miles SE. of Chorley and 5 miles NE. of Wigan.	Bartholomew

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