We could not match "ISLIP" 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 "ISLIP" (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 "ISLIP":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BECKLEY	Oxfordshire	Islip r. station, and 5 NE of Oxford; and has a post office under Oxford. It was the burial-place	Imperial
  BICESTER	Oxfordshire	Islip, Kirtlington, Lower Heyford, Upper Heyford, Somerton, Fritwell, and Souldern. Acres, 64,127. Poor-rates in 1866, £9,440. Pop. in 1861, 15,555. Houses	Imperial
  CHARLTON-UPON-OTMOOR	Oxfordshire	Islip r. station, and 5 SSW of Bicester. The parish includes also the hamlets of Fencott and Murcott. Post Town	Imperial
  CHERWELL	Northamptonshire Oxfordshire	Islip, and Marston, to the Thames in the southern vicinity of Oxford. It is joined by the Snere on the right	Imperial
  ELSFIELD	Oxfordshire	Islip r. station, and 3 NE of Oxford. Post town, Oxford. Acres, 1, 280 Real property, £1, 532. Pop., 179. Houses	Imperial
  Islip	Northamptonshire	Islip .-- par. and vil., Northamptonshire, in NW. vicinity of Thrapston, 1370 ac., pop. 571; P.O.; has matting mfrs.	Bartholomew
  Islip	Oxfordshire	Islip , par. and vil. with ry. sta., Oxfordshire, on river Ray, 6 miles N. of Oxford by rail, 1978 ac., pop. 600; P.O.; the birthplace	Bartholomew
  ISLIP	Northamptonshire	ISLIP , a village and a parish in Thrapston district, Northampton. The village stands on the river Nen, adjacent to the Peterborough	Imperial
  ISLIP	Oxfordshire	ISLIP , a village and a parish in Bicester district, Oxford. The village stands on the river Ray, near its influx	Imperial
  KIDLINGTON	Oxfordshire	Islip station of the West Midland railway, and 5 N of Oxford city; is a large place; and has a post	Imperial
  MAYFIELD	Sussex	Islip; was also the meeting-place of ecclesiastical councils in 1332 and 1362; gave entertainment, in the time of Sir Thomas	Imperial
  NOKE	Oxfordshire	Islip r.station, and 5 N N E of Oxford. Post-town, Oxford. Acres, 794. Real property, £1, 263. Pop., 116. Houses	Imperial
  ODDINGTON	Oxfordshire	Islip r. station, and 6¾ S S W of Bicester. Post-town, Islip, under Oxford. Acres, 1, 410. Real	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	Islip, with 15; the d.of Nettlebed, with 15; the d. of Oxford, with 21; thed. of Witney, with 21; and the d. of Woodstock	Imperial
  OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford, or Oxon	Oxfordshire	Islip, to Bicester; and goes thence, north-eastward, into Bucks and towards Bletchley. Another line deflects from the preceding 1½ mile	Imperial
  STOW-WOOD	Oxfordshire	Islip r. station. Post town, Oxford. Acres, 640. Real property, £400. Pop., 27. Houses, 6. There is no church	Imperial
  Stow Wood (or Stowood)	Oxfordshire	Stow Wood (or Stowood ), par., Oxfordshire, 3½ miles SE. of Islip ry. sta., 578 ac., pop. 18.	Bartholomew
  WESTON-ON-THE-GREEN	Oxfordshire	Islip r. station, and 4½ SW of Bicester. It has a post-office under Bicester. Acres, 2,466. Real	Imperial
  Wood Eaton	Oxfordshire	Wood Eaton .-- par., Oxfordshire, 1½ mile SE. of Islip sta., 657 ac., pop. 67; contains Wood Eaton Hall , seat.	Bartholomew
  WOOD-EATON	Oxfordshire	Islip r. station. Post town, Oxford. Acres, 639. Real property, £978. Pop., 83. Houses, 15. W. House is the seat	Imperial

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• 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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