We could not match "ATHELSTANEFORD" 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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• 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 "ATHELSTANEFORD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Athelstaneford	East Lothian	Athelstaneford, a village and a parish of N central Haddingtonshire. The village is 3 miles NNE of Haddington, and has a post	Groome
  Athelstaneford	East Lothian	Athelstaneford , par. and vil., in co. and 3½ miles N. of Haddington, 5077 ac., pop. 762; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Bloody Lands	East Lothian	Athelstaneford parish, Haddingtonshire. It is said to have got its name from the ancient slaughter at it of a wild	Groome
  Dirleton	East Lothian	Athelstaneford and Aberlady. Its length, from E to W, varies between 2 7 / 8 and 5½ miles; its utmost	Groome
  Drem	East Lothian	Athelstaneford parish, Haddingtonshire, 4¼ miles N by W of Haddington. The village stands on the North British railway at the junction	Groome
  Gilmerton	East Lothian	Athelstaneford parish, Haddingtonshire, 4 miles NE of Haddington, and 3¼. ESE of Drem Junction. It is the seat of Sir Alexander	Groome
  Haddington	East Lothian	Athelstaneford, on the E by Prestonkirk and Morham, on the S by Yester, Bolton, Salton, and Gladsmuir, and on the W by Gladsmuir	Groome
  Haddingtonshire or East Lothian	East Lothian	Athelstaneford, but it has long ceased to be produced. In 1793 a flax-mill was erected at West Barns, and in 1815 a cotton	Groome
  Leith	Midlothian	Athelstaneford, wrote Agis and Douglas, and, owing to his having written these stage-plays, was regarded with disapproval by the Church	Groome
  Peffer Burn, East and West	East Lothian	Athelstaneford par., and flow, the one 8 miles NE. to the North Sea 2½ miles below Whitekirk, and the other	Bartholomew
  Peffers, The	East Lothian	Athelstaneford parish, and flowing the one westward to Aberlady Bay, the other eastward and north-eastward to a creek 1¾ mile	Groome
  Prestonkirk	East Lothian	Athelstaneford. With a somewhat irregular outline, it has an utmost length from NNW to SSE of 4¾ miles, a varying	Groome

  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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