We could not match "CALBOURNE" 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  CALBOURNE Liberty	Ancient District	HAMPSHIRE (Ancient County)

  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 "CALBOURNE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Calbourn	Yorkshire	Calbourn (West-Riding Yorkshire). See COLBOURN.	Bartholomew
  CALBOURNE	Hampshire	CALBOURNE , a village, a parish, and a subdistrict in the Isle of Wight. The village stands 5 miles WSW of Newport	Imperial
  Calbourne and Newton Borough	Hampshire	Calbourne and Newton Borough , par., Isle of Wight, 5 miles SW. of Newport, 5539 ac. and 549 tidal water and foreshore	Bartholomew
  CATTERICK	Yorkshire	Calbourn, Scotton, East and West Appleton, Brough, Tunstall, Scorton, Uckerby, Ellerton-upon-Swale, and Bolton-upon-Swale, in Catterick parish	Imperial
  HIPSWELL	Yorkshire	Calbourn and Scotton, and the extra-parochial tract of St. Martin; and its post town is Richmond, Yorkshire. Pop., 566. Houses	Imperial
  Newbridge	Hampshire	Newbridge , hamlet, in W. of Isle of Wight, 1 mile NW. of Calbourne.	Bartholomew
  NEWBRIDGE	Hampshire	Newton river, 1 mile N W of Calbourne. Spots abounding with fossils, and interesting to geologists, abound in its neighbourhood.	Imperial
  Newtown	Hampshire	Calbourne par., and eccl. dist., partly also in Shalfleet par., Isle of Wight - dist., pop. 356; the vil. is on Newtown	Bartholomew
  NEWTOWN	Hampshire	Calbourne parish, Isle of Wight. The town stands on acreek of its own name, 1 mile S by W of the Solent	Imperial
  WESTOVER	Hampshire	Calbourne parish, Isle of Wight; 5½ miles WSW of Newport. It belonged to the Esturs; passed to the Lisles	Imperial
  WIGHT (Isle of)	Hampshire	Calbourne. Poor rates in 1863, £12,127. Marriages in 1863, 469; births, 1,787; of which 111 were illegitimate	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.



• 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.