You searched for "HEADLESS CROSS" 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. There are no units called "HEADLESS CROSS" (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 "HEADLESS CROSS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Forres	Moray	cross, with a circle at the intersection of the arms. The cross and the whole of the centre division are covered with elaborate carving, forming so-called Runic knots. The edges are also covered with Runic knotting, and at the base of one of them are several figures, seemingly females. On the S side there are five divisions. The first shows ground of figures, with the walls of some building in the background; the second has a body of horsemen advancing at full gallop, and infantry following with spears in their hands and shields on their arms. The sculptured figures	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  Headless Cross	Worcestershire	Headless Cross , eccl. dist. and vil., Feckenham and Tardebigg pars., S. Worcestershire, and Ipsley par., S. Warwickshire - dist., pop. 2783; vil., 5 miles	Bartholomew
  HEADLESS-CROSS	Warwickshire Worcestershire	HEADLESS-CROSS , a village in Ipsley parish, Warwick, and Feckenham parish, Worcester, and a chapelry partly also in Tardebigg parish	Imperial
  IPSLEY	Warwickshire	Headless Cross village, and part of Redditch town, each of which has a post office under Bromsgrove; and contains also	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , a town, four parishes, and a district, in Northumberland. The town stands on the river Tyne at	Imperial
  NEWPORT	Monmouthshire	headless statue of a warrior; was restored in 1855; and contains some mutilated monuments. St. Paul's church stands in Commercial-street; was built in 1837; has an octagonal tower, resting on a portico of open arches, and crowned with a spire; and was repaired and decorated in 1859. There are also churches of St. Mark and Holy Trinity at Pill-Gwenlly, and chapels for Independents, Baptists, Quakers, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics. The Tabernacle chapel, in Commercial-street, was repaired and improved in 1865, at a cost of about £1, 100; and now has a new Bathstone front	Imperial
  TARDEBIGGE	Worcestershire	Headless-Cross are separate benefices. There are a national school, and charities £70.—The sub-district contains 3 parishes	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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.