We could not match "ALVES" 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 20 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 "ALVES" (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 "ALVES":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Alves	Moray	Alves, a village and a coast parish of Elginshire. The village stands ½ mile NE of a station of its own name	Groome
  Alves	Moray	Alves , par., vil., and ry. sta., in co. and 5½ miles W. of Elgin, 9404 ac., pop. 1117; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  Burghead	Moray	Alves Junction, 10¾ NW of Elgin, and 12½ NE of Forres. Laid out on a regular plan, with	Groome
  Coltfield	Moray	Coltfield, a hamlet in Alves parish, Elginshire, 4 miles S of Burghhead.	Groome
  Crook of Alves	Moray	Crook of Alves , hamlet, in par. and ½ mile N. of ry. sta. of Alves, NW. Elginshire.	Bartholomew
  Crook of Alves	Moray	Crook of Alves, a hamlet in Alves parish, Elginshire, 3½ furlongs N of Alves station.	Groome
  Duffus	Moray	Alves. Its length, from E to W, varies between 3 7 / 8 and 6½ miles; its utmost breadth, from	Groome
  Elgin	Moray	Alves; the Treasurer, who was minister of Kinneddar; the Chancellor, who was minister of Inveraven; the Sub-Dean, who was minister	Groome
  Elgin	Moray	Alves. Its shape is very irregular, but the greatest length from SW to NE is 11 miles, and its greatest	Groome
  Elginshire or Moray	Moray	Alves, part of Spynie, and small strips in the sandy district. A loamy soil covers extensive tracts in Duffus, Alves	Groome
  Highland Railway	Inverness Shire Nairnshire Ross Shire Sutherland	Alves to Burghead, 5½ miles, was authorised, and it was opened in 1862. In the meantime, by an act passed	Groome
  Kinloss	Moray	Alves, S by Rafford, and W by Forres and by Dyke and Moy. Its greatest length, from WNW to ESE, is 4¾ miles	Groome
  Milton Brodie	Moray	Milton Brodie , seat, Alves par., N. Elginshire, 2 miles NE. of Kinloss ry. sta. and 5 miles NE. of Forres.	Bartholomew
  Milton-Brodie	Moray	Alves parish, NW Elginshire, 1¾ mile NE of Kinloss station and 5¼ miles SSW of Burghead. Its owner	Groome
  Moray's Cairn	Moray	Moray's Cairn, a quondam large stone tumulus, supposed to have been commemorative of a battle, in Alves parish, Elginshire.	Groome
  Newton House	Moray	Newton House .-- seat, Alves par., in co. and Similes W. of Elgin.	Bartholomew
  Newton House	Moray	Alves parish, Elginshire, 3 ¾ miles W by N of Elgin. Erected in l793, and enlarged and remodelled in 1852, it is a fine	Groome
  Rafford	Moray	Alves and Elgin, SE by the parish of Dallas, S and SW by the parish of Edinkillie, and W by the parish	Groome
  Speymouth	Moray	Alves. The Highlanders had retired on the approach of Cumberland's forces, Sir John Drummond and his advisers, who bad been	Groome
  Spynie or New Spynie	Moray	Alves, and NW by the parish of Duffus. On the N the boundary follows for 3 ¾ miles the drainage	Groome

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