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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 "GREAT ALNE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALCESTER	Warwickshire	Alne and the Arrow, and on the Birmingham and Malvern railway, 9 miles NNE of Evesham. The Roman station Alanna stood on its site; and the Roman road, Icknield street, passed through, and may still be traced in the vicinity. Roman pavements, substructions, coins, and urns have been found. The place had great	Imperial
  Alne, Great	Warwickshire	Alne, Great , par., S. Warwicksh., on river Alne, 2 miles NE. of Alcester, 1753 ac., pop. 435; P.O.	Bartholomew
  ALNE (Great)	Warwickshire	ALNE (Great) , a parish in Alcester district, Warwick; on the river Alne, 5 miles W by S of Bearley r station	Imperial
  Alne, Little	Warwickshire	Alne, Little , hamlet, Aston Cantilow par., S. Warwickshire, 2 miles NE. of Great Arne.	Bartholomew
  ALNE (Little)	Warwickshire	ALNE (Little) , a hamlet in Aston-Cantilow parish, Warwick; on the river Alne, 2 miles NE of Great Alne. Pop., 80.	Imperial
  ALNE (The)	Warwickshire	ALNE (The) , a river of Warwick. It rises near Beardmore; and runs 15 miles southward, past Great Alne and Alcester	Imperial
  Alnwick	Northumberland	Aln, 38½ miles N. by W. of Newcastle-on-Tyne and 310 miles N. of London by rail -- par., 16,986 ac., pop. 7447; township, 16,749 ac. (70 water), pop. 7440; town, pop. 6693; P.O., T.O., 4 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-day, Saturday . It is a town of great	Bartholomew
  ALNWICK	Northumberland	Alne; are upwards of 3 miles long; exhibit great wealth and variety of both natural and artificial beauty; and contain	Imperial
  Ancrum	Roxburghshire	Ancrum, a village and a parish of Roxburghshire. The village stands upon rising ground, on the right bank of the	Groome
  FLAWITH	Yorkshire	Alne parish, N. R. Yorkshire; near the Great No h of England railway, 4½ miles SW of Easingwold. Acres	Imperial
  Great Alne	Warwickshire	Great Alne , ry. sta., 2½ miles NE. of Alcester, S. Warwickshire; P.O. See ALNE, GREAT.	Bartholomew
  KINWARTON	Warwickshire	Alne, 1½ mile NE of Alcester r. station. Post town, Alcester, under Bromsgrove. Acres, 480. Real property, £867. Pop., 64. Houses, 12. The property is divided among three. Kinwarton House is the residence of J. Brown, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelries of Weethley and Great	Imperial
  NORTHUMBERLAND	Northumberland	great part of the parishes of Wooler, Kirknewton, Ilderton, Ingram, Alnham, Alwinton, and Elsdon; formmasses grouped skirt to skirt, or shoulder to shoulder, like clustering cones, with dome-shaped summits; and rise to altitudes of from 1, 280 to 2, 658 feet. The surface from their base, eastward to the sea and south-eastward to the Tyne, may be described generally as a hanging plain, but consists largely of either low tableau orlow plain. The tracts in the S W to the extent of about25 miles from Highfield and Hareshaw moors to the Sborder, and from 10 to 28 miles	Imperial

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