We could not match "WHEELOCK" 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. There are no units called "WHEELOCK" (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 "WHEELOCK":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Wheelock, Church-Hulme, Elworth, and Goostrey. The archdeaconry of Liverpool comprises the deaneries of Wirrall and Warrington. The deanery of Wirrall	Imperial
  Elton	Cheshire	Elton , township, Warmingham par., mid. Cheshire, on river Wheelock, 2½ miles SW. of Sandbach, 1084 ac., pop. 549.	Bartholomew
  Fulbrook	Cheshire	Fulbrook , affluent of river Wheelock, W. Cheshire.	Bartholomew
  FULBROOK (The)	Cheshire	FULBROOK (The) , a stream of Cheshire; falling into the Wheelock.	Imperial
  MIDDLEWICH	Cheshire	Wheelock or Croco, and on the Sandbach, Middlewich, and Northwich branch of the Northwestern railway, 2 miles E of Winsford	Imperial
  Occlestone	Cheshire	Occlestone , township and vil., Middlewich par., Cheshire, on river Wheelock, 1½ mile SW. of Middlewich, 751 ac., pop. 101.	Bartholomew
  OCCLESTONE	Cheshire	Wheelock, near the Middlewich canal and the Grand Junction railway, 1¾ mile S S W of Middlewich. Acres, 721. Real	Imperial
  SANDBACH	Cheshire	Wheelock, the Grand Trunk canal, and the North-western railway, 4¾ miles N E of Crewe; is a seat	Imperial
  Wheelock	Cheshire	Wheelock .-- river, Cheshire; rises on E. border of co., and flows NW. past Wheelock and Warningham to the Dane, near	Bartholomew
  Wheelock	Cheshire	Wheelock, 4 miles NE. of Crewe; P.O.; has a brewery, bone works, and ironworks; in vicinity is Wheelock House , seat	Bartholomew
  WHEELOCK	Cheshire	WHEELOCK , a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Sandbach parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the river Wheelock and on the Grand	Imperial
  WHEELOCK (The)	Cheshire	WHEELOCK (The) , a river of Cheshire; rising on Mole Cop, at the boundary with Stafford; and running about 16 miles	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.



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