We could not match "DESKFORD" 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 15 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 "DESKFORD" (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 "DESKFORD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Banffshire	Banffshire	Deskford and on or near the site of Gordon Castle. The Danes made repeated descents on the teiritory, suffered, according	Groome
  Berryhillock	Banffshire	Berryhillock, a village in Deskford parish, N Banffshire, 4¼ miles S of Cullen.	Groome
  Cullen	Banffshire	Deskford, 5¾ miles W by N of Portsoy station, with which it communicates thrice a day by omnibus, and which	Groome
  Deskford	Banffshire	Deskford , par., N. Banffshire, 8155 ac., pop. 849; contains Kirktown of Deskford , vil., on D. Burn, 4 miles S. of Cullen	Bartholomew
  Deskford	Banffshire	Deskford, a village and a parish in the N of Banffshire. The village, Kirktown of Deskford, stands on the left	Groome
  Deskford or Cullen Burn	Banffshire	Deskford or Cullen Burn, a rapid, deep-channelled stream of Banffshire, rising in the S of Deskford parish, and thence	Groome
  Findlater	Banffshire	Deskford, and gave them the title of earl from 1638 till 1811. That title expired at the death of the seventh	Groome
  Findlater Castle	Banffshire	Banffshire, 1¾ mile E. of Cullen, ruined stronghold (fortified 1445) of the Ogilvies of Deskford, earls of Findlater (1638-1811).	Bartholomew
  Fordyce	Banffshire	Deskford, and Ordiquhill. It is bounded N by the Moray Firth, E by Boyndie, SE by Ordiquhill, S W by Grange	Groome
  Grange	Banffshire	Deskford, NE by Fordyce and Ordiquhill, E by Marnoch, SE by Rothiemay, S by Cairnie in Aberdeenshire, and SW and W by Keith	Groome
  Ha' Hill	Banffshire	Ha' Hill , mound, on Ha' Burn, Deskford par., Banffshire.	Bartholomew
  Inalterie	Banffshire	Inalterie , place with vestiges of ancient edifice, Deskford par., Banffshire, 2½ miles S. of Cullen.	Bartholomew
  Keith	Banffshire	Deskford, and is bounded E by the parish of Grange, SE for about 2 miles by the county of Aberdeen	Groome
  Milton	Banffshire	Milton .-- hamlet, Deskford par., N. Banffshire, 2½ miles S. of Cullen.	Bartholomew
  Rathven	Banffshire	Deskford and Keith, and W by Bellie. Its utmost length, from ENE to WSW, is 8¼ miles; its breadth	Groome

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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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