We could not match "SOUTHGATE" 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 20 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  SOUTHGATE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BURY ST EDMUNDS MB (Local Government District)
  SOUTHGATE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CRAWLEY UD (Local Government District)
  SOUTHGATE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	GLOUCESTER CB (Local Government District)

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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 "SOUTHGATE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Barnet Fryern		Southgate ry. sta., 1304 ac., pop. 6424; birthplace of Walker, the lexicographer (1732-1807). It contains Barnet Christchurch , eccl. dist	Bartholomew
  BARNET-FRYERN		Southgate and Colney-Hatch r. station, and 3 miles SSE of Barnet. It contains the hamlet of Colney-Hatch, and part	Imperial
  COLNEY-HATCH		Southgate, on the railway. The Middlesex county lunatic asylum here, opened in 1851, occupies fully 118 acres; is 1,883 feet	Imperial
  CONISFORD		Southgate, part of the parish of Trowse, and the extra-parochial place of Norfolk county jail. Pop., 12, 983. Houses	Imperial
  EDMONTON		Southgate, Winchmore-Hill, Palmers-Green, and the wards of Bury-street, Church-street, Fore-street, and South-street; includes part	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER		Southgate to the docks, an enlargement of the docks themselves, the formation of a new basin, and the erection there	Imperial
  LEICESTER		Southgate-street. The kings of Mercia treated Leicester as one of their principal towns. The see of Mercia was divided	Imperial
  New Southgate		Southgate , vil. with ry. sta., Edmonton par., and eccl. dist., partly also in Fryern Barnet par., Middlesex - dist., pop. 3006; the vil. is 3 miles	Bartholomew
  NORWICH		Southgate, 457, £3, 337; St. Saviour 1, 532; £3, 805; St. Simon and St. Jude, 283, £1, 221; St. Stephen	Imperial
  Perth		Southgate and ` the Shoegate, ' and at its western extremity are County Place and York Place. Parallel to these, in order	Groome
  SNETTISHAM		Southgate hamlet, with a coastguard station; extends some distance along the Wash; and comprises 5,580 acres of land, and 9,660 of foreshore	Imperial
  Southgate		Southgate , 2 eccl. dists. (Christchurch and St Michael) and ry. sta. (Palmer's Green and Southgate), Edmonton par., Middlesex, pop.- Christchurch	Bartholomew
  SOUTHGATE		SOUTHGATE , a village and a chapelry in Edmonton parish, Middlesex. The village stands near the Great Northern railway, 8 miles	Imperial
  Southgate House		Southgate House , seat, Derbyshire, 8 miles NE. of Chesterfield.	Bartholomew
  Southgate, New		Southgate, New , vil. with ry. sta. (for Colney Hatch), Edmonton par., and eccl. dist., partly also in Fryern Barnet par., Middlesex	Bartholomew
  South Lodge		South Lodge , seat, Edmonton par., Middlesex, near Southgate; was the seat of the Earl of Chatham.	Bartholomew
  WINCHESTER		Southgate; a Dominican friary, at Eastgate; a Franciscan friary, in Middle Brook-street; the Sustern, or convent of hospitable nuns	Imperial

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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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