We could not match "BETHNAL GREEN" 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 "BETHNAL GREEN" (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 "BETHNAL GREEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bethnal Green		Bethnal Green , parl. bor. and par. with ry. sta., Middlesex, in E. of London, 755 ac., pop. 126,961;. the parl	Bartholomew
  BETHNAL GREEN		GREEN , a part of Tower-Hamlets borough, London; on the Eastern Counties railway, 2 miles NE by E of St. Paul's. It was formerly a hamlet in the parish of Stepney; but was constituted a separate parish in 1743; and is now also a registration district. It lies within the postal town delivery; and has receiving-houses in Green-street and in Bethnal	Imperial
  GLOBE-TOWN		Bethnal-Green parish, London; near Victoria Park and the Great Eastern railway, 2½ miles NE by E of St. Pauls	Imperial
  Hackney		members in 1885, when its parl. limits were reduced by the formation of the new parl. bors. of Bethnal Green and Shoreditch.	Bartholomew
  HACKNEY		part of Tower Hamlets borough; comprises the parishes of Hackney, Bethnal Green, and Shoreditch; and sends two members to parliament.	Imperial
  London		Bethnal Green, 2; Camberwell, 3; Chelsea, 1; Deptford, 1; Finsbury, 3; Fulham, 1; Greenwich, 1; Hackney, 3; Hammersmith, 1; Hampstead	Bartholomew
  LONDON		Bethnal-green, Clapton-square, De Beauvoir-square, Hoxton-square, and Stoke-Newington-green; in Islington, Highburycrescent, Islington-green, and Barnsbury	Imperial
  Middlesex		Bethnal Green (2 members), Chelsea (1), Finsbury (3), Fulham (1), Hackney (3), Hammersmith (1), Hampstead (1), Islington (4), Kensington (2), Marylebone	Bartholomew
  MIDDLESEX		Bethnal-Green, and Mile-End. Electors in 1833,6,939; in 1865,14,847, -of whom 10,542 were freeholders	Imperial
  MILE-END-NEW-TOWN		Bethnal-Green parishes, 1¾ mile ENE of St. Pauls; was once a part of the ancient parish of Stepney	Imperial
  South Hackney		South Hackney , dist., partly in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch pars, but chiefly in Hackney par., Middlesex, pop. 40,902.	Bartholomew
  STEPNEY		Bethnal-Green, Bow, Poplar, and Blackwall; was known at Domesday as Stebenhede, and afterwards as Stebunhithe, Stebenhythe, and Stebonheath; belonged	Imperial
  TOWN		division of Bethnal-Green parish, Middlesex. Acres, 96. Pop. in 1851, 20,941; in 1861, 21,486; Houses, 2,671.	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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