Searching for "LISTON"

We could not match "LISTON" 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 9 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 "LISTON" (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 "LISTON":
    Place name County Entry Source
    Ecclesmachan West Lothian Liston (1794-1847) was a native, his father being parish minister; so too, perhaps, was the poet William Hamilton of Bangour Groome
    KENSALL-GREEN Middlesex Liston the actor, Thomas Hood the comic writer, John Murray the publisher, Sir William Molesworth, two daughters of Sir Walter Imperial
    Kirkliston West Lothian Liston, its church having once belonged to the Knights Templars; the church is a very ancient building, and contains the old burying Bartholomew
    Kirkliston Midlothian
    West Lothian
    Liston Manor, being distinguished by the prefix Kirk from Old Liston, New Liston, Over New Liston, Hal Liston, and Liston Groome
    Liston Essex Liston , par. and vil., Essex, in NE. of co., on river Stour, 3 miles NW. of Sudbury, 643 ac., pop. 123; in vicinity Bartholomew
    LISTON Essex Listons. Liston Hall is the seat of Mrs. Thornhill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value Imperial
    Liston Court Herefordshire Liston Court , seat, Herefordshire; post-town, Ross. Bartholomew
    Millburn Tower Midlothian Liston, G.C.B., who lived here from 1821 to 1836. His grandniece married Sir William Foulis, Bart. of Woodhall; and their Groome
    Ratho Midlothian Liston, G.C.B. (l742-1836), British ambassador at seven courts, who spent his last years at Millburn; and Sir William Fettes Groome
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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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