We could not match "BALCOMBE" 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 10 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you typed a postcode, it needs to be a full postcode: some letters, then some numbers, then more letters. Old-style postal districts like "SE3" are not precise enough (if you know the location but do not have a precise postcode or placename, see below):
  
  
  
  
  
• If you are looking for a place-name, it needs to be the name of a town or village, or possibly a district within a town. We do not know about individual streets or buildings, unless they give their names to a larger area (though you might try our collections of Historical Gazetteers and British travel writing). Do not include the name of a county, region or nation with the place-name: if we know of more than one place in Britain with the same name, you get to choose the right one from a list or map:
  
  
  
  
  
• 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 "BALCOMBE" (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 "BALCOMBE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ARDINGLY	Sussex	Balcombe r. station, and 3 NE of Cuckfield. It includes the hamlet of Hapsted; and its Post Town is Cuckfield	Imperial
  Balcombe	Sussex	Balcombe , par., vil. with ry. sta., and seat, E. Sussex, 4 miles N. of Cuckfield, 4795 ac., pop. 878; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BALCOMBE	Sussex	BALCOMBE , a village and a parish in Cuckfield district, Sussex. The village stands on a pleasant spot, adjacent to the London	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	Balcombe, Shermanbury, Frant, Hurstperpoint, Lewes-All-Saints, Westham, Burwash, Beckley, Bexhill, Ripe, and Framfield. The first group comprises the rectories	Imperial
  CUCKFIELD	Sussex	Balcombe, and Horsted-Keynes; and the sub-district of Hurstper-point, containing the parishes of Hurstperpoint, Clayton, Keymer, Albourne, Newtimber	Imperial
  Highbeach Warren	Sussex	Highbeach Warren , tract, Balcombe par., E. Sussex, 1180 ac.	Bartholomew
  HIGHBEACH WARREN	Sussex	HIGHBEACH WARREN , a tract of 1, 180 acres in Balcombe parish, Sussex; 3¼ miles N of Cuckfield.	Imperial
  Ouse Viaduct	Sussex	Balcombe and Hayward's Heath stations; is one of the finest works in the kingdom; consists of 37 arches, and is 99 ft. high	Bartholomew
  Pippingford Park	Sussex	Pippingford Park , seat, near Balcombe sta., Sussex.	Bartholomew
  SLAUGHAM	Sussex	Balcombe r. station, and 3¾ NW of Cuckfield. It is cut into the sections of Handcross, Pease-Pottage, Warningfield	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.