You searched for "SOUTH LANCING" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. 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 "SOUTH LANCING" (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 "SOUTH LANCING":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BUCKLAND-ST.-MARY	Somerset	Lance; is in the decorated English style; consists of nave with aisles, chancel with side chapels, a south porch, and a massive	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	CHICHESTER , a city, a sub-district, a district, a rape, and a diocese in Sussex. The city stands at the	Imperial
  Falkirk	Stirlingshire	Falkirk, a town and parish of SE Stirlingshire. A industry, and the virtual capital of the south-eastern parliamentary burgh	Groome
  Iona	Argyll	Iona, an island and quoad sacra parish at the SW corner of the island of Mull, and separated from the	Groome
  Jedburgh	Roxburghshire	Jedburgh ( Jed-worth, 'town on the Jed'), the county town of Roxburghshire, a royal, parliamentary, and police burgh, the seat	Groome
  Lancing	Sussex	Lancing , par. and ry. sta., Sussex, 2 miles NW. of Shoreham, 2530 ac. (25 water) and 496 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 1341; P.O. at sta., called Lancing Station ; the par. contains the vils. of North Lancing ; P.O.; and South	Bartholomew
  LANCING	Sussex	LANCING , a village and a parish in Worthing district, Sussex. The village stands near the river Adur, and near the South	Imperial
  LANCING (LOWER)	Sussex	LANCING (LOWER) , a hamlet in Lancing parish, Sussex; on the coast, adjacent to Lancing r. station, 2½ miles W of Shoreham. It has a post-office, of the name of South	Imperial
  Melrose	Roxburghshire Selkirkshire	Melrose, a post town and burgh of barony, in the southern section of the parish just described, between the Tweed	Groome
  South Lancing	Sussex	South Lancing , vil., Lancing par., Sussex, 3 miles W. of Shoreham; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Tweed	Berwickshire Peebles Shire	Tweed, a large river in the SE of Scotland, draining also part of the N of Northumberland, and forming, for	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.



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