We could not match "CLERKENWELL" 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 18 possible matches we have found for you:

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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 "CLERKENWELL":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Clerkenwell	Middlesex	Clerkenwell , par., Middlesex, within Finsbury parl. bor., London, 380 ac., pop. 69,076.	Bartholomew
  CLERKENWELL	Middlesex	Clerkenwell, Amwell, Pentonville, and Goswell-street. Acres of St. James-Clerkenwell, 74; of Amwell, 82; of Pentonville, 134; of Goswell	Imperial
  Finsbury	Middlesex	Clerkenwell pars., Holborn dist., St Giles dist., &c., and returns 3 members -- 3 divisions, viz., Holborn, Central, and East	Bartholomew
  FINSBURY	Middlesex	Clerkenwell and Worship-street police courts, the Clerkenwell, Shore-ditch, and Bloomsbury county courts, the Clerkenwell Session's court, and the Central	Imperial
  GRAYS INN LANE	Middlesex	sides, by the parishes of Clerkenwell, St. Giles, and St. George Bloomsbury. Acres, 155. Pop., 27, 808. Houses, 2, 887.	Imperial
  HAREFIELD	Middlesex	Clerkenwell priory, was founded in the parish by Alice de Clare, who probably held the manor prior to Roger de Bacheworth	Imperial
  HIGHBURY	Middlesex	Clerkenwell, who had a moated house, called Little St. John's wood, on the site of the camp; passed to Thomas	Imperial
  HIGHGATE	Middlesex	Clerkenwell, from the other end northward; became the great N road from London; and, prior to the railway period, was traversed	Imperial
  ISLINGTON	Middlesex	Clerkenwell new county court, the modern Vestry hall, and a Metropolitan police station; and another is the Conference hall, founded	Imperial
  JOHN'S WOOD (ST.)	Middlesex	Clerkenwell: is a fashionable quarter, with well-built airy streets and places; has post offices under London NW, and a police	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Clerkenwell, is inhabited mainly by the various grades of the middle classes. The Bloomsbury and Bedford-square region, to the SW of Clerkenwell	Imperial
  LUKE (ST.)	Middlesex	Clerkenwell parishes, including Goswell-street and kingsquare, and the N side of Old-street from Goswellstreet to the corner of Brick	Imperial
  MIDDLESEX	Middlesex	Clerkenwell, and other places. About 150,000 acres are either arable land, meadow, or pasture. The soil is variously clayey	Imperial
  MOOR-HALL	Middlesex	village. An ancient priory, a cell to Clerkenwell priory, was here; and some remains of it, including the chapel, still exist.	Imperial
  Muswell Hill	Middlesex	Clerkenwell par., Middlesex - dist., pop. 1657; the sta. is 5 ½ miles N. of King's Cross sta., London, near	Bartholomew
  MUSWELL-HILL	Middlesex	Clerkenwell parish, Middlesex. The hamlet lies between the Great Northern and the Midland railways, 1 mile W N W of Hornsey	Imperial
  Pentonville	Middlesex	Pentonville , eccl. dist., Clerkenwell par., Middlesex, in N. of London, pop. 8511.	Bartholomew
  PENTONVILLE	Middlesex	Clerkenwell parish and district, Middlesex. The sub-district forms a compact portion of the metropolis; lies1¾ mile N N E of St. Paul	Imperial

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