We could not match "GORTIN" 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 "GORTIN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BADONY (LOWER)	Tyrone	Gortin Gap, through which the road from Omagh leads to the village of Gortin. The parish, according to the same	Lewis:Ireland
  BADONY (UPPER)	Tyrone	Gortin. This parish was formerly much more extensive than it is at present; an act of council was obtained, by which	Lewis:Ireland
  Bodoney, Lower and Upper	Tyrone	Upper Strabane, N. co. Tyrone, the former containing Gortin, 47,921 ac., pop. 6110; and 38,209 ac., pop. 4700.	Bartholomew
  CAPPAGH	Tyrone	Gortin gap, through which a road runs from Omagh to Gortin, is a deep ravine stretching in a northern and southern	Lewis:Ireland
  COLERAINE	Londonderry	Gortin, Ballydivitt, Macosquin, Drumcroom, Mullamore, Keeley, Aghadowey, Rusbrook, Collans, Mullycarrie, Island Effrick, Castle Roe, Greenfield, and other places. The quantity	Lewis:Ireland
  DONAGHEADY	Tyrone	Gortin; and the lower half is in the manor of Donolonge, which was granted by James I. to the Earl	Lewis:Ireland
  Gortin	Tyrone	Gortin , vil., Lower Bodoney par., mid. co. Tyrone, on river Nagle, 6 miles E. of Newtown Stewart, pop. 338; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank	Bartholomew
  GORTIN	Tyrone	GORTIN , a village, in the parish of LOWER BADONY, barony of STRABANE, county of TYRONE, and province of ULSTER, 5 miles	Lewis:Ireland
  MERIONETH, or MERIONETHISHIRE	Merionethshire	Gortin, Craig-y-Ddinas, Moel-Orthrwm, and Caer-Drewyn. The Sarn Helen way went through the county northward, by Roman	Imperial
  Munterlony	Tyrone	Munterlony , hill, 5 miles NE. of Gortin, N. co. Tyrone, alt. 1432 ft.	Bartholomew
  Owenreagh	Tyrone	Owenreagh , affluent of river Owenkillew, N. co. Tyrone, 2 miles E. of Gortin; 12 miles long.	Bartholomew
  TYRONE	Tyrone	Gortin, Ballygawley, and Cookstown, supported by equal Grand Jury presentments and private subscription. The Grand Jury presentments for 1836 amounted	Lewis:Ireland

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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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