We could not match "ABBOTSHALL" 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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• 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 "ABBOTSHALL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Abbotshall	Fife	Abbotshall, a coast parish, S Fifeshire, containing the Linktown or southern suburb of Kirkcaldy (incorporated with that burgh in 1876), and bounded	Groome
  Abbotshall	Fife	Abbotshall , coast par., SE. Fifeshire, containing Linktown, a S. suburb of Kirkcaldy, 4135 ac., pop. 6435.	Bartholomew
  Auchterderran	Fife	Abbotshall, S by Auchtertool, SW by Beath, and W by Ballingray. With a very irregular outline, rudely resembling a cross	Groome
  Auchtertool	Fife	Abbotshall, E and SE by Kinghorn, S and SW by Aberdour, and NW by Beath. Its length from ENE to WSW varies	Groome
  Balwearie	Fife	Abbotshall par., S. Fifeshire, 2 miles W. of Kirkcaldy. It was the residence of the famous Sir Michael Scot (1210-1291).	Bartholomew
  Balwearie	Fife	Abbotshall parish, Fife, 2 miles W by S of Kirkcaldy. It must have been 50 or 60 feet high and 43 square	Groome
  Dysart	Fife	Abbotshall, Auchterderran, and Kinglassie. Its utmost length, from NNW to SSE, is 4 miles; its width, from E to W, varies	Groome
  Invertiel	Fife	Abbotshall and Kinghorn parishes, Fife, comprising part of the southern or Linktown extremity of Kirkcaldy. Constituted in 1869, it is in the presbytery	Groome
  Invertiel	Fife	sacra par., Abbotshall and Kinghorn pars., Fife, on Tiel Burn, pop. 2023; comprises the S. or Linktown portion of Kirkcaldy.	Bartholomew
  Kinghorn	Fife	Abbotshall, E and S by the Firth of Forth, and W by Burntisland and Aberdour. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 4½ miles	Groome
  Kirkcaldy	Fife	Abbotshall par., Invertiel in Kinghorn par., and Pathhead, Sinclairtown, and Gallatown, in Dysart par. The town, from the great length	Bartholomew
  Kirkcaldy	Fife	Abbotshall. Bounded N by Kinglassie and Dysart, E by Dysart and the Firth of Forth, and S and W by Abbotshall	Groome
  Linktown	Fife	Linktown , burgh of regality, Abbotshall par., Fife; forms part of KIRKCALDY: which see.	Bartholomew
  Linktown	Fife	Abbotshall parish, Fife. It forms part of the parliamentary burgh of Kirkcaldy, is a prolongation westward of Kirkcaldy proper, figures	Groome
  Raith	Fife	Abbotshall parish, Fife, 2½ miles W of Kirkcaldy. Standing on the eastern face of a hill, and originally built	Groome
  Raith	Fife	quoad sacra par., Abbotshall par., Fife; was constituted in 1883; Raith House , seat, is 2½ miles W. of Kirkcaldy.	Bartholomew

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