British Towns and Villages Network

Search the Nation - Find places in the UK

This facility allows you to search the nation and find places in the UK whether that is a city, town, parish, village or community nearly anywhere within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and its Territories and Crown Dependencies

We suggest that you enter at least the first 6 characters of any city, town or village into the search box below to find it in the database of (nearly!) the entire United Kingdom and its Dependencies then either press "Submit" or hit the Carriage Return/Enter Key. Results will open in a new window.

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Search for a location and find a place in the UK
 
 

Detailed Instructions

If you are unsure of the spelling of the location your are searching for then it is best to use fewer search characters, the minimum is 3. The database will return all those location we have that are similar to your search request. You can easily try again with a different variation of the spelling if the database does not return any locations

If you are searching for a location like "St. Ives" then simply enter "St Ives". Do not enter a period/full stop. We do not use punctuation in our location names as there are far to many variations.

Why do we suggest 6 characters? Because of places that begin with "Llan", "West", "East" etc. There are so many locations that begin with these prefixes that we suggest that you cut the list down to a manageable that you can read! ALSO the database will only return a maximum of 200 results.

There are over 16,000 entries in our database and the quantity is growing almost daily. As new towns and villages are being built and boundaries moved this will be a continuous activity. If you are searching for a place that you cannot find within our index, then why not let us know using the FEEDBACK button above.