You searched for "WHITLEY UPPER" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 8 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)
  WHITLEY UPPER LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	KIRKBURTON UD (Local Government District)

  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 "WHITLEY UPPER":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHESTER		CHESTER , a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of	Imperial
  COVENTRY		COVENTRY , a town, a district, and a quondam city-county, in Warwick. The town stands on the river Sherbourne, at	Imperial
  KIRKHEATON		Upper Heaton hamlet, and comprises 1, 609 acres. Real property, £5, 906; of which £600 are in mines, and £24 in quarries. Pop., 3, 011. Houses, 617.—The parish contains likewise the townships of Dalton, Lepton, and Upper Whitley	Imperial
  LYMINGTON		Whitley-Ridge-walk, Rhinefieldwalk, and Wilverley-walk. Acres, 24,267. Pop., 8,070. Houses, 1,622.—The district comprehends also the subdistrict of Milford, containing the parishes of Milford, Hordle, and Milton, and part of the extra-parochial tract of Wilverley-walk. Acres of the district, 42,169. Poorrates in 1863, £6,692. Pop. in 1851,12,153; in 1861, 12,094. Houses, 2,479. Marriages in 1863,68; births, 332, -of which 32 were illegitimate; deaths, 181,-of which 51 were at ages under 5 years, and 10 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years	Imperial
  NORTHUMBERLAND		NORTHUMBERLAND , a maritime county in the N of England; bounded, on the N W and the N, by Scotland; on	Imperial
  Whitley, Upper		miles E. of Huddersfield, 2053 ac., pop. 909; has coal mines; contains Whitley Beaumont , seat. Upper Whitley is a local government district.	Bartholomew
  WHITLEY (Upper)		WHITLEY (Upper) , a township in Kirkheaton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 6 miles E by N of Huddersfield. Acres, 1,953. Pop., 947. Houses	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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