We could not match "WITTERING" 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. There are no units called "WITTERING" (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 "WITTERING":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ARDKEEN		Witter were constituted a distinct rectory, in the patronage of the Bishop, in 1834, by consent of the prebendary, and the perpetual	Lewis:Ireland
  BALLYPHILIP		Witter, Ballytrustin, Slanes, and Ardguin; there are two chapels, one near Portaferry, a spacious and handsome edifice, and the other	Lewis:Ireland
  Cakeham		Cakeham , manor, West Wittering par., W. Susse.	Bartholomew
  CAKEHAM		Wittering parish, Sussex; on the east side of Chichester harbour, 6½ miles SW of Chichester. A palace of the Bishops	Imperial
  CASTLEBUOY, or ST. JOHNSTOWN		Witter, and any sum not exceeding £5 is recoverable in it, either by attachment or civil bill process. The lofty	Lewis:Ireland
  CHICHESTER		Wittering; the vicarages of Aldingbourne, Bosham, Boxgrove, Chidham, Compton, Donnington, Eartham, East Dean, Westhampnett, Hunston, East Marden, North Mundham, Oving	Imperial
  HAMPNETT (WEST), or WESTHAMPNETT		Wittering, East Wittering, Earnley, Sidlesham, and Selsey. Acres, 7, 913. Poor rates in 1863, £, 398. Pop. in 185, 1, 268; in 186, 1,811. Houses	Imperial
  INCH, or INNISCOURCY		Witter, together constituting the corps of the prebend of St. Andrew, in the cathedral of Down, but in 1834 separated	Lewis:Ireland
  MANHOOD		Wittering, East Wittering, Earnley, Sidlesham, and Selsey. Acres, 17,455. Pop., 3,418. Houses, 740.- The hundred is in Chichester	Imperial
  PORTAFERRY		Witter. The town is a constabulary police and a coast guard station. The market, on Saturday, is well supplied with	Lewis:Ireland
  STAMFORD		Wittering Heath. St. Mary's church is of the latter part of the 13th century, and has a fine tower	Imperial
  West Wittering		West Wittering , 6½ miles SW. of Chichester, Sussex; P.O. See WITTERING, WEST.	Bartholomew
  Whittering		Whittering , Northamptonshire. See WITTERING.	Bartholomew
  WHITTERING, or Wittering		Wittering, a parish in the district of Stamford and county of Northampton; 2½ miles NNW of Wansford-Road r. station	Imperial
  Wittering, East		Wittering, East , coast par., Sussex, 5 miles S. of Bosham sta. and adjacent to West Wittering, 1176 ac. and 176 foreshore	Bartholomew
  WITTERING (East)		WITTERING (East) , a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex; on the coast, 5 miles S of Bosham r. station, and 6 SW of Chichester	Imperial
  Wittering (or Whittering)		Wittering (or Whittering ), par., Northamptonshire, 3½ miles SE. of Stamford, 2690 ac., pop. 261.	Bartholomew
  Wittering, West		Wittering, West , coast par. and vil., Sussex - par., 2286 ac. land, 158 tidal water, and 921 foreshore, pop. 665; vil., 6½ miles	Bartholomew
  WITTERING (West)		WITTERING (West) , a parish, with a village, in Westhampnett district, Sussex; on the coast, 5½ miles SSW of Bosham	Imperial
  WITTER, or GRANGE-OUTER		WITTER , or GRANGE-OUTER, a parish, in the barony of ARDES, county of DOWN, and province of ULSTER, 2 miles	Lewis:Ireland

  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.