We could not match "SKIRLING" 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 11 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 "SKIRLING" (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 "SKIRLING":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Biggar	Lanarkshire	Skirling in Peeblesshire, S by Culter, and SW by Liberton, the parish has an extreme length, from Broomy Law at its north	Groome
  Biggar, The	Lanarkshire Peebles Shire	Skirling from Culter and Broughton, and traversing Broughton, till, at about 600 feet above sea-level, it falls into the Tweed	Groome
  Broughton, Kilbucho, and Glenholm	Peebles Shire	Skirling. From Broughton Heights at the NE corner to Glenwhappen Rig, the southernmost point, it has an extreme length of 10 miles	Groome
  Castle Craig	Peebles Shire	Skirling, thirteenth Bart. since 1628 (b. 1827; suc. 1855), holds 8756 acres in Peeblesshire and 732 in Edinburghshire, valued respectively	Groome
  Culter	Lanarkshire Peebles Shire	Skirling, E by the Kilbucho and Glenholm portions of Broughton, SE by Drummelzier, SW by Crawford and Lamington, and NW by Symington	Groome
  Kirkurd	Peebles Shire	Skirling, and NW by Dolphinton in Lanarkshire. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 4 1 / 8 miles; its utmost	Groome
  Peeblesshire or Tweeddale	Peebles Shire	Skirling, Netherurd, and Medwin Water to the Pentland Hills, which form the NW boundary. The outline thus traced presents the appearance	Groome
  Skirling	Peebles Shire	Skirling, a village and a parish of W Peeblesshire. The village stands 690 feet above sea-level, 2½ miles	Groome
  Skirling	Peebles Shire	Skirling , par. and vil., Peeblesshire - par., 3423 ac., pop. 274; vil., 2½ miles NE. of Biggar; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Skye	Inverness Shire	skirl. A cormorant flaps o'er a sleek ocean floor Of tremulous mother-of-pearl. The top of Blaven is 3042 feet	Groome
  Walston	Lanarkshire	Skirling. Its utmost length, from ENE to WSW, is 3 3 / 8 miles; its utmost width is 3 miles; and its area	Groome

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.