We could not match "WIDNES" 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 18 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 "WIDNES" (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 "WIDNES":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  APPLETON		Widnes township, Prescot parish, Lancashire; near St. Helen's railway, the Sankey canal, and the river Mersey, 6½ miles	Imperial
  FARNWORTH		Widnes Dock, was built in 1858, and designed with a view to enlargement. There is a free gammar-school. William	Imperial
  HANGING-BIRCH		HANGING-BIRCH , a hamlet in Widnes township, Prescot parish, Lancashire; 4¼ miles SE of Prescot.	Imperial
  HELENS (ST.) RAILWAY		Widnes to Garston, and for docks at Garston; in 1847 further powers were acquired for improving the main line, and for branches	Imperial
  Hough Green		Hough Green , ry. sta. (for Widnes), SW. Lancashire, 7 miles SW. of Warrington.	Bartholomew
  LANCASHIRE		Widnes. There are nearly 900 smaller towns, villages, and hamlets. The chief seats in the county are Knowsley Park, Heaton	Imperial
  Lancashire, or Lancaster		Ormskirk, Bootle, Widnes, Newton, Hindley, and Leigh. The representation of Lancashire was increased from 8 to 23 members in 1885.	Bartholomew
  LUNTS-HEATH		LUNTS-HEATH , a hamlet in Widnes township, Prescot parish, Lancashire; near the Mersey, 5½ miles SE of Prescot.	Imperial
  MOSS-BANK		Helens, and Widnes railway, 1¾ mile N by W of St. Helens. It has a station on the railway.	Imperial
  MOSSLEY HILL		Widnes, and Liverpool railway, 2 miles ESE of Liverpool. Mossley Hon se, in the neighbourhood, is the seat of the Ewarts	Imperial
  PEASLEY-CROSS		station in Lancashire; on the St. Helens and Widnes railway, ¾ of a mile S S E of St. Helens.	Imperial
  Prescot		Widnes), 37,221 ac., pop. 105,478; township, 270 ac., pop. 5546; town, 8 miles E. of Liverpool by rail	Bartholomew
  PRESCOT		Widnes, Ditton, Cronton, Great Sankey, Cuerdley, and Penketh; and is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of Prescot, Eccleston, St. Thomas	Imperial
  Runcorn		tanning, quarrying, and the mfr. of chemicals. Between Runcorn and Widnes the Mersey is spanned by a magnificent railway bridge.	Bartholomew
  UPTON		UPTON , a hamlet in Widnes township, Lancashire: 4¼ miles SW of Prescot.	Imperial
  Widnes		Widnes , manufacturing town and township, Prescot par., SW. Lancashire, on river Mersey, 13 miles SE. of Liverpool, 3339 ac. (314 water	Bartholomew
  WIDNES		WIDNES , a town, a township, and a chapelry, in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The town stands on the river Mersey, at the intersection	Imperial
  Widnes Division		Widnes Division , parl. div. of SW. Lancashire, pop. 53,951.	Bartholomew

  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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