We could not match "STAITHES" 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 13 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 "STAITHES" (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 "STAITHES":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Brancaster	Norfolk	miles W. of Wells, 3672 ac. land and 2105 water, pop. 770; P.O., T.O. B. Staithe , 2 m. from B. vil.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BURTON-UPON-STATHER	Lincolnshire	staith" or creek of the river Trent, near that river's mouth, 3 miles NNE of Keadby r. station, and 11½ NW of Glanford	Imperial
  CARDIFF	Glamorgan	staiths; the former capable of discharging 40 tons per hour, the latter capable of shipping 150 tons of coal per hour	Imperial
  Coal Staith	Yorkshire	Coal Staith , hamlet, Berwick-in-Elmet par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles SW. of Tadcaster.	Bartholomew
  Hickling	Norfolk	Walsham, 4334 ac., pop. 824; P.O.; in vicinity of vil. is a lake called Hickling Broad (400 ac.); also Hickling Staithe , with inn.	Bartholomew
  MIDDLESBOROUGH	Yorkshire	staiths, as enables vessels to be loaded and unloaded irrespective of the fluctuation of the tide. A bill also was introduced	Imperial
  NEWBURN	Northumberland	staiths, iron-works, glass-works, chemical-works, brick and tile manufactories, and a paper mill are on the banks of the river	Imperial
  NEWBURN-HALL	Northumberland	Lemington, and has coal-staiths and glass-works. Acres, 876. Pop., 703. Houses, 148. Lemington Hall is a chief residence.	Imperial
  Staithes	Yorkshire	Staithes , market town with ry. sta., Easington par., North-Riding Yorkshire, on the coast, 10 miles NW. of Whitby; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank	Bartholomew
  STAITHES	Yorkshire	STAITHES , a village in Easington parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, 10 miles NW of Whitby. It has a post	Imperial
  STELLA	County Durham	staith, and a Roman Catholic chapel.—The chapelry includes Blaydon and Derwenthaugh, and was constituted in 1845. Post town	Imperial
  WHICKHAM	County Durham	staiths. A stratum of burnt earth is near the village; is said to have resulted from the slow combustion of a seam	Imperial
  WHITBY	Yorkshire	staith, erected in 1861, 750 feet long and 25 broad, extends from the bridge to the railway station. A spacious	Imperial

  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.