We could not match "SOUTH RESTON" 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 8 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 "SOUTH RESTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Berwickshire	Berwickshire	Reston, Ayton, and Burnmouth. A branch of the North British railway deflects from the main line at Reston, goes south	Groome
  Berwickshire Railway	Berwickshire Roxburghshire	Reston and Dunse branch of the North British, it goes south-westward, through Berwickshire, past Greenlaw and Gordon, to Earlston	Groome
  Dunse or Duns	Berwickshire	south-eastern boundary. The surface sinks to 250 feet above sea-level at the confluence of Langton Burn with the Blackadder, and along the Whitadder to close on 280, thence rising north-westward to 700 feet at Dunse Law, 869 at Jennies Wood, 1000 at Black Hill, 1033 at Commonside, 960 near Windyshiel, and 1065 at Cockburnlaw-heights that belong to the southern ridge of the Lammermuirs. The rocks of the hills are partly eruptive, mainly Silurian; and those elsewhere are sandstone of three different formations, which has been quarried, and which in places is rich in vegetable fossils. More	Groome
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	South Reston, Swaby, TheddlethorpeSt. Helen, Mablethorpe-St. Peter, South Thoresby, Tothill, Trusthorpe, and Withern; the vicarages of Calceby, Strubby, Sutton	Imperial
  LOUTH	Lincolnshire	South Elkington, and Welton-le-Wold. Acres, 38,555. Pop., 14,442. Houses, 3,190.—The district comprehends also the sub-district of Withern, containing the parishes of Walmsgate, Swaby, South Thoresby, Belleau, Aby, Saleby, Beesby-in-the-Marsh, Hannah, Trusthorpe, Mablethorpe-St. Mary, Mablethorpe-St. Peter, Maltby-le-Marsh, Strubby, Withern, Gayton-le-Marsh, Tothill, Authorpe, Reston	Imperial
  North British Railway	Berwickshire Midlothian	Reston on the main line; the branches to Gretna, Port Carlisle, and Silloth; and the line running from Galashiels to Innerleithen and Peebles, with branch to Dolphinton, and returning to main line at Eskbank. There are also short lines to Penicuik, Roslin, and Polton; to North Berwick, Haddington, Macmerry, Musselburgh, and Fisherrow harbour; and the connecting link between South	Groome
  Reston, South	Lincolnshire	Reston, South , par. and vil., Lincolnshire, 6 miles SE. of Louth, 710 ac., pop. 238; near vil. is South Reston	Bartholomew
  RESTON (South)	Lincolnshire	RESTON (South) , a parish, with a village, in Louth district, Lincoln; 2 miles N N E of Authorpe r. station	Imperial

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