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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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  GREAT KELK	Manor	FOSTON ON THE WOLDS AP/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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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 KELK":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BEEFORD	Yorkshire	Great Driffield; and has a post office‡ under Hull. Acres, 3,470. Real property, £5,021. Pop., 808. Houses, 183. The parish includes also the townships of Dunnington and Lissett. Acres, 5,461. Real property, inclusive of Little Kelk	Imperial
  DRIFFIELD	Yorkshire	Great Driffield, Little Driffield, and Emswe-with-Kellythorpe. Acres, 7, 434. Real property, £23, 158. Pop., 4, 734. Houses, 1, 028. The property is much subdivided. Tumuli, seemingly of the times of the Danes, occur in various places, particularly on a farm called Danes-dale, 3 miles from the town; and some of them have yielded flint spear-heads, fragments of urns, and beads of jet, glass, and amber. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Little Driffield, in the diocese of York. Value, £240. Patron, the Archbishop of York.—The sub-district	Imperial
  FOSTON-ON-THE-WOLDS	Yorkshire	Great Driffield. Acres, 1, 110. Real property, £1, 665. Pop., 311. Houses, 74.—The parish contains also the townships of Brigham, Gembling, and Great Kelk	Imperial
  Kelk, Great	Yorkshire	Kelk, Great , township, Foston on the Wolds par., East-Riding Yorkshire, 5½ miles E. of Driffield, 2173 ac., pop. 180.	Bartholomew
  KELK (GREAT)	Yorkshire	KELK (GREAT) , a township in Foston-on-the-Wolds parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 5½ miles E of Great Driffield	Imperial
  KELK (LITTLE)	Yorkshire	KELK (LITTLE) , an extra-parochial tract in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire; 1 mile N of Great Kelk. Acres, 640. Pop., 57. Houses	Imperial
  STANMORE (Great)	Middlesex	Great) , a village and a parish in Hendon district, Middlesex. The village stands on a hillslope, near Watling-street, 2 miles NW of Edgware r. station; is about a mile long; and has a post-office‡ under London NW, and a hotel. The parish contains also S. Marsh hamlet, and comprises 1,441 acres. Real property, £7,709. Pop. in 1851, 1,180; in 1861, 1,318. Houses, 259. The manor was held, at Domesday, by Earl Mortaigne; and passed to St. Albans abbey, Smithfield priory, the Spaniard Gambo, the Lakes, the Brydgeses, the Drummonds, the Abercorns	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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