We could not match "KNOCKBAIN" 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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• 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 "KNOCKBAIN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Avoch	Ross Shire	Knockbain, SW by Kilmuir-Wester, and W by Urquhart. Its greatest length, from NE to SW, is 4¼ miles	Groome
  Black Isle	Cromarty Nairnshire Ross Shire	Knockbain, Avoch, Rosemarkie, Cromarty, Resolis, and Urquhart; and it consists largely over its north-western portion of the broad based	Groome
  Chanonry	Ross Shire	Knockbain, the quoad sacra parish of Fortrose, and the Gaelic church of Cromarty; is in the synod of Ross; and meets	Groome
  Dingwall	Ross Shire	Knockbain, 1109 at Cnoc a' Bhreac, and * 2000 at Meall na Speireig, those heights that culminate on the parish's borders	Groome
  Drumsmittal	Ross Shire	Drumsmittal , school, Knockbain par., SE. Ross-shire.	Bartholomew
  Kessock	Ross and Cromarty	Knockbain par., E. Ross and Cromarty, 2 miles (by ferry) NW. of Inverness; P.O.; Kessock Ferry is across the narrow	Bartholomew
  Killearnan	Ross Shire	Knockbain, a strip of which, 280 yards wide at the narrowest, divides it into two unequal portions, the smaller of them	Groome
  Kilmuir	Ross and Cromarty	Kilmuir , vil., Knockbain par., SE. Ross and Cromarty, on the coast, 3 m. N. of Inverness.	Bartholomew
  Kilmuir	Ross Shire	Knockbain or Kilmuir-Wester parish, SE Ross-shire, on the Moray Firth, 2 miles NNE of Kessock Ferry and 3 N by E of Inverness	Groome
  Kilmuir-Wester	Ross and Cromarty	Kilmuir-Wester , ancient par., now in Knockbain par., SE. Ross and Cromarty.	Bartholomew
  Kirkhill	Inverness Shire	Knockbain-with respective accommodation for 160, 60, and 75 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 75, 27, and 72, and grants	Groome
  Knockbain	Ross and Cromarty	Knockbain , par., SE. Ross and Cromarty, on N. side of Beauly Firth, 12,035 ac., pop. 1866; P.O.; the church	Bartholomew
  Knockbain	Ross Shire	Knockbain, a coast parish of SE Ross-shire, whose church stands 1 mile S of Munlochy, and 5¾ miles	Groome
  Munlochy	Ross Shire	Knockbain parish, Ross-shire, ½ mile W of the head of Munlochy Bay, 5 5 / 8 miles WSW of Fortrose	Groome
  Munlochy	Ross and Cromarty	Knockbain par., Ross and Cromarty, on Munlochy Bay, 7 miles N. by W. of Inverness; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; Munlochy	Bartholomew
  Ord Hill	Ross and Cromarty	Ord Hill , Knockbain par., Ross and Cromarty, alt. 633 ft.	Bartholomew
  Ross-shire	Ross Shire	Knockbain, Lochalsh, Lochbroom, Lochcarron, Lochs, Logie-Easter, Nigg, Resolis, Rosemarkie, Rosskeen, Stornoway, Tain, Tarbat, and Uig, two parts of parishes	Groome

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