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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 "WHITE RODING":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	Aberdeen, the ' Granite City,' capital of Aberdeenshire, seat of a university, and chief town and seaport in the North of	Groome
  Bannockburn	Stirlingshire	rode to the castle, but was told by the governor that he could not long enjoy safety there, as it could not be defended against the victors. Taking a compass, to shun the vigilance of the Scots. he made the best of his way homeward, accompanied by fifteen noblemen and a body of 500 cavalry. He was closely pursued above forty miles by Sir James Douglas, who, with a party of light horse, kept upon his rear, and was often very near him. How hard he was put to, may be guessed from a vow which he made	Groome
  CHESTER	Cheshire	CHESTER , a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of	Imperial
  DOVER	Kent	DOVER , a town and a district in Kent. The town stands on the coast, under chalk cliffs, at the mouth	Imperial
  Dunbar	East Lothian	Dunbar (Gael. dun-barr, ` fort on the point '), a town and a parish on the north-eastern coast of Haddingtonshire	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Edinburgh, the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian, is situated 2 miles S of the Firth of Forth	Groome
  Glentilt	Perthshire	white, and green, was discovered here about the year 1818; and to the geologist Glentilt is classic ground, as having towards the close of vast century furnished evidence for the Huttonian or denudation theory. It is interesting, too, as a favourite huntingground of Scottish sovereigns-notably of James V. (1529) and of Queen Mary (1564). And Queen Victoria writes in her Journal (12 Sept. 1844):-' At a little before four o'clock Albert drove me out in the pony phaeton till nearly six-such a drive! Really, to be able to sit in one's pony carriage	Groome
  ILFORD (GREAT)	Essex	Roding, and on the Eastern Counties railway, near Epping forest, 3½ miles ENE of Stratford; is within the jurisdiction of the central criminal court and the Metropolitan police; and has a station of the name of Ilford on the railway, a post office of the same name under London E, a police station, a reading room, a church, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and an endowed hospital with a chapel. The church is a modern edifice, of white	Imperial
  Killiecrankie, Pass of	Perthshire	Killiecrankie, Pass of, a contraction of the valley of the Garry on the western verge of Moulin parish, Perthshire, commencing	Groome
  Leith	Midlothian	Leith (anc. Let or Inverlet ), the sixth largest town in Scotland, a seaport, a police and parliamentary burgh, and seat	Groome
  LIMERICK	Limerick	LIMERICK , a city and county of itself, situated on the river Shannon, locally in the county of Limerick (of which	Lewis:Ireland
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England	Imperial
  Lochlee	Angus	rode down Glen Mark, stopping to drink some water out of a very pure well, called The White Well; and crossing	Groome
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , a town, four parishes, and a district, in Northumberland. The town stands on the river Tyne at	Imperial
  Prestonpans	East Lothian	Prestonpans, a coast town and parish of W Haddingtonshire. The town, extending ¾ mile south-westward along the shore of	Groome
  ROOTHING (White)	Essex	White) , a village and a parish in Dunmow district, Essex. The village stands 1½ mile W of the river Roding	Imperial
  St Andrews	Fife	St Andrews, a royal burgh, market, and university town, and a seaport on St Andrews Bay, near the middle of	Groome
  THAMES (The)	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Essex Gloucestershire Kent Middlesex	Roding below East Ham, the Darent opposite Purfleet, the Medway at Sheerness, the Swale at Whitstable, and the Crouch at Foulness Point. The river has a total course of about 216 miles, from its source to the North Foreland; it drains a basin of about 6,000 square miles; it has a height of 243 feet above sea-level at the influx of the Upper Colne, 190 feet at the influx of the Cherwell, 106 feet at Henley, 41 feet at Weybridge, and 4¼ feet at London bridge; it is navigated by barges to Lechlade, by steamers to Moulsey	Imperial

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