We could not match "BROTHERTON" 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 17 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 "BROTHERTON" (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 "BROTHERTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Benholm	Kincardineshire	Brotherton and Benholm estates, and that on the former is the best building stone in the county. The soil for 1½ mile	Groome
  Brotherton	Yorkshire	Brotherton , par. and township, E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles NE. of Pontefract by rail -- par., 2388 ac. (55 water	Bartholomew
  BROTHERTON	Yorkshire	BROTHERTON , a township and a parish in Pontefract district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Aire, and on the York	Imperial
  Brotherton House	Kincardineshire	Brotherton House , seat, Benholm par., Kincardineshire, near Johnshaven.	Bartholomew
  Byram with Poole	Yorkshire	Brotherton par., West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Aire, 1½ mile NW. of Ferrybridge, 823 ac., pop. 68; contains Byram	Bartholomew
  BYROME-WITH-POOL	Yorkshire	Brotherton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire, adjacent to the York and Derby railway, 1¾ mile NNW of Ferry	Imperial
  CARLOW	Carlow	Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England. The next year, Donald Mac Murrough, styled Prince of Leinster, was murdered	Lewis:Ireland
  HASELEY (Great)	Oxfordshire	Brothertons, the Pipards, the Lenthalls, and ithers. Haseley Court is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese	Imperial
  Kincardineshire	Kincardineshire	Brotherton, The Burn, Cowie, Coul, Drumlithie, Drumtochty, Dunnottar, Ecclesgreig, Fasque, Fawside, Fettercairn, Fetteresso, Gillien brands, Glenbervie, Hallgreen, Haulkerton, Inchmarlo, Inglismaldie	Groome
  MANCHESTER	Lancashire Manchester	Brotherton, Esq., and other local celebrities. A new large Town Hall, of splendid character, after designs by Alfred Waterhouse, was founded	Imperial
  Montrose	Angus	Brotherton, and, as restored and enlarged in 1878, is a good Early English edifice, with organ, fine stained-glass windows	Groome
  NORFOLK	Norfolk	Brotherton in 1312; and it became extinct in 1399. A dukedom of Norfolk was created in 1397, infavour of Thomas	Imperial
  PONTEFRACT or Pomfret	Yorkshire	Brotherton, and the townships of Knottingley, Cridling-Stubbs, Beaghall, Kellington, Birkin, South Milford, and Huddleston and Lumby; the sub-district	Imperial
  POOL	Yorkshire	POOL , a hamlet in by rome-with-Pool township, Brotherton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles N E of Brotherton village.	Imperial
  REDENHALL	Norfolk	Brotherton, Duke of Norfolk; was restored in 1858; has a fine tower; and contains monuments of the Gawdy family. See Harleston	Imperial
  Sutton	Yorkshire	Sutton , township, Brotherton par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles NE. of Pontefract, 632 ac., pop. 39.	Bartholomew
  SUTTON	Yorkshire	Brotherton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 3¼ miles NE of Pontefract. Acres, 597. Real property, £1,192. Pop., 51. Houses	Imperial

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• 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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