We could not match "SANDA" 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 16 possible matches we have found for you:

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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. There are no units called "SANDA" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• 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 "SANDA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Argyllshire	Argyll	Sanda island, 6 miles ESE of the Mull of Kintyre, and Devaar island at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch. Much	Groome
  Aven	Argyll	Aven, a modern provincial abbreviation of ` Avona Porticosa, ' the ancient name of the island Sanda in Southend parish, Argyllshire.	Groome
  Canna	Inverness Shire	Sanda; and, together with that island, it comprises about 429 acres of arable land, and 1794 acres of green pasture	Groome
  Dun-na-Feulan or Gull Rocks	Argyll	Sanda island, in Small Isles parish, Argyllshire. Of different magnitudes, but of similar height, rising 100 feet above sea-level	Groome
  Dun-na-Feulan, or Gull Rocks	Argyll	Dun-na-Feulan , or Gull Rocks , 2 rocky islets, near Sanda island, Argyllshire.	Bartholomew
  Elsness	Orkney	Sanda island, Orkney. Projecting 1½ mile southward from the main body of the parish, and flanking the W side	Groome
  Glanasnar	Argyll	Glanasnar, a pastoral islet of Southend parish, Argyllshire, adjacent to the NE side of Sanda island.	Groome
  Glunimore	Argyll	Glunimore , island, near Sanda isl., Kintyre, Argyll.	Bartholomew
  Hebrides or Western Islands	Scotland	Sanda (57; 14), Sanday (58; 62), Scarba (7; 19), Seil (731; 661), Sheep in Kilbrandon (4; 2), Sheep off Lismore	Groome
  Keil	Argyll	Sanda island, 10½ miles SSW of Campbeltown; and the estate extends a considerable distance along the coast. A ruined	Groome
  Kintyre	Argyll	Sanda, with several islets. The peninsula is prevented only by the narrow isthmus of Tarbert from being an island. From	Groome
  Sanda	Argyll	Sanda; and, being always covered by food tide, has endangered many a vessel. A lighthouse, erected on Sanda in 1850 at a cost	Groome
  Sanda	Argyll	Sanda , island, Southend par., Argyllshire, at W. side of entrance to Firth of Clyde, 1¾ mile S. of Kintyre	Bartholomew
  Sheep Isle	Argyll	Lismore and Appin par., Inner Hebrides, Argyllshire, adjacent to Sanda island and 1¾ mile S. of Kintyre peninsula, pop. 4.	Bartholomew
  Southend	Argyll	Sanda and the adjacent islets, and has been called Southend since the Reformation. It is bounded N by the parish	Groome
  Southend	Argyll	peninsula, Argyllshire - par. (comprising Sanda island), 30,801 ac., pop. 955; vil., 9½ miles SW. of Campbeltown; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew

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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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