We could not match "PROBUS" 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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• 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 "PROBUS" (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 "PROBUS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALTERNON, or Altarnun	Cornwall	Probus. St. Nunn, the mother of St. David of Wales, is said to have been buried here; and Jowle, the clerk	Imperial
  AUSTELL (St.)	Cornwall	Probus. Acres, 57,446. Poor-rates, £10,449. Pop. in 1841, 31,408; in 1861, 33,797. Houses, 6,829. Marriages	Imperial
  CORNELLY	Cornwall	living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £47. Patron, the Vicar of Probus. The church is good.	Imperial
  CORNWALL	Cornwall	note are at St. Germains, Rialton, and St. Roche. Interesting ancient churches are at Probus, Truro, Bodmin, St. Neots, St. Germains, and Duloe.	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Probus, Cuby, and Veryan; the p. curacies of Charlestown, Treverbyn, Par, Cornelly, Baldhu, Chasewater, Truro-St. John, Kenwyn-St. George	Imperial
  EYAM	Derbyshire	Probus, Gallienus, Victorinus, Claudius, and other Roman emperors, are occasionally discovered. Ancient British remains also are numerous. A Druidical circle	Imperial
  Golden	Cornwall	Golden (formerly Wolvedon), ancient seat, Probus par., W. Cornwall; is interesting to antiquarians.	Bartholomew
  Grampound	Cornwall	Probus pars., W. Cornwall, on river Fal, 7 miles SW. of St Austell, 199 ac., pop. 482; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank	Bartholomew
  GRAMPOUND	Cornwall	Probus parish, but chiefly in Creed. Real property, £939. Pop., 573. Houses, 115. Pop. of the Creed portion, 477. Houses	Imperial
  Lemellion	Cornwall	Lemellion , seat, near Probus, Cornwall.	Bartholomew
  MERTHER	Cornwall	Probus, Cornwall. Acres, 1,726. Real property, £2,088. Pop., 384. Houses, 79. The manor and most of the land	Imperial
  MICHAEL-PENKEVIL (ST.)	Cornwall	Probus, Cornwall. The parish comprises 1,189 acres. Real property, £984. Pop., 194. Houses, 35. The manor belonged to the Penkevils	Imperial
  Peterhead	Aberdeenshire	Probus vixit, fortis obiit .' A cemetery, laid out in 1868-69, contains a Runic cross of polished granite, 14 feet	Groome
  Probus	Cornwall	Probus , par., township, and vil., Cornwall - par. (containing part of Grampound), 8113 ac., pop. 1354; township, 8097 ac., pop. 1273; vil., 2 miles	Bartholomew
  PROBUS	Cornwall	PROBUS , a village and a sub-district, in Truro district, and a parish partly also in St. Austell district, Cornwall	Imperial
  TRESILIAN	Cornwall	Probus, Cornwall, and four annual fairs; and it was the place where the civil wars of Charles I. terminated, by the surrender	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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