We could not match "RABY" 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 "RABY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BARTON	Yorkshire	Raby hounds. The living is a double vicarage of Barton-St. Cuthbert and Barton-St. Mary, in the diocese of Ripon	Imperial
  Cleveland	Yorkshire	chiefly at Middlesbrough, on W. border of dist. Cleveland gives the title of Duke to the Vanes of Raby Castle.	Bartholomew
  COCKFIELD	County Durham	Raby Park, 7 miles NE-of Barnard Castle; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under	Imperial
  DURHAM, or Durhamshire	County Durham	Raby, the Ravensworth, and the Bishopric estates. Farms, on these properties, average from 150 to 200 acres; and are held	Imperial
  HOUGHTON-LE-SIDE	County Durham	quarries. Pop., 133. Houses, 28. The township is a meet for the Raby hounds; and it has a national school.	Imperial
  Keverstone	County Durham	Keverstone . See RABY AND KEVERSTONE.	Bartholomew
  KILLERBY	County Durham	Acres, 605. Real property, £1, 063. Pop., 109. Houses, 20. This place is a meet for the Raby hounds.	Imperial
  LANGLEYDALE and SHOTTON	County Durham	Raby Castle, and associated with the life of the last Earl of Westmoreland. The ballad of Surtees says,— "As I down	Imperial
  MANFIELD	Yorkshire	Raby hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £466. * Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church	Imperial
  MIDDLETON-TYAS	Yorkshire	Raby hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £705.* Patron, the Bishop of Ripon	Imperial
  NESTON	Cheshire	Raby, Thornton-Hough, and Leighton. Acres, 15, 293; of which 3, 920 are water. Real property, £21, 955. Pop. in 1851, 3, 578; in 1861, 4,049. Houses	Imperial
  Raby	Cheshire	Raby , township, Neston par., Cheshire, 2 miles NE. of Neston sta., 1477 ac., pop. 239.	Bartholomew
  RABY	Cheshire	RABY , a township in Neston parish, Cheshire; 2 miles N E of Great Neston. Acres, 1, 472. Real property, £1, 828. Pop., 214. Houses	Imperial
  Raby and Keverstone	County Durham	Raby and Keverstone , township, Staindrop par., Durham, 6 miles NE. of Barnard Castle, 2814 ac., pop. 280; Raby Castle (1379), a fine	Bartholomew
  RABY-WITH- KEVERSTONE	County Durham	RABY-WITH- KEVERSTONE , a township in Stain-drop parish, Durham; 6 miles N E of Barnard-Castle. Acres, 2, 752. Real	Imperial
  STAINDROP	County Durham	Raby Park is a prominent feature. Lead works are in Langleydale. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Cockfield. The church	Imperial
  WILLASTON	Cheshire	Raby and Thornton-Hough townships, and was constituted in 1854. Pop., 903. Houses, 161. The living is a vicarage in the diocese	Imperial

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