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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 "NORTHWOOD HILLS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BIRMINGHAM		hill, nearly in the form of a crescent. This hill is part of the watershed between the eastern and the western seas; and rises 115 feet in 1,000 yards from the side of the Rea; and one portion of it, nearly in the centre of the borough, occupied by St. Philip's church, is 475 feet above low watermark at London bridge. The town is compact; and, including the suburbs, extends about 4 miles by 6. The streets are very numerous, generally short and irregular; and give an aggregate length of nearly 200 miles. Newstreet is the most brilliant	Imperial
  CARISBROOKE		hill, 239 feet high; and was taken, in 530, by Cerdic, the Saxon. A castle, on the site of this, was built by William Fitz-Osborne, the first Norman lord of Wight; rebuilt, in the time of Henry I., by Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon; enlarged, in 1262-93, by Isabella de Fortibus; repaired and outwardly strengthened by Elizabeth; used as a state prison by Cromwell, and made then the prison of Charles I. and his children; used as a state prison also by Charles I.; long occupied by the governor and the garrison of the Isle of Wight	Imperial
  COWES		Northwood parish; is often called West Cowes; and stands at the left side of the mouth of the Medina river, 4½ miles N of Newport, and 11½ SSE of Southampton. It occupies the declivity of a semicircular eminence; and looks very picturesque, as seen from the water; but consists chiefly of steep, dark, narrow, winding streets. A railway, called the Cowes and Newport, authorized in Aug., 1859, and opened in July, 1862, connects it with Newport. Cowes is the principal port of the island, a last calling-place for many ships leaving England for all parts	Imperial
  HALSTOW (HIGH)		Northwood hill commands an extensive view of the shore of the Thames. Part of the land is marsh, with reed	Imperial
  LICHFIELD		Hill, Brockmoor, Coseley, Ettingshall, Upper Gornal, Lower Gornal, KingswinfordSt. Mary, Pensnett, and Quarry-Bank. The deanery of Leek contains the rectory of Norton-in-Moors, the vicarages of Biddulph and Leek-St. Edward, and the p. curacies of Buddulph-Moor, Brownedge, Cheddleton, Endon, Horton, Ipstones, Leek-St. Luke, Longnor, Meerbrook, Milton, Onecote, Rushton-Spencer, Smallthorne, and Wetley-Rocks. The deanery of Newcastleunder-Lyne contains the rectory of Newcastle-St. Giles, the vicarages of Audley and Wolstanton, and the p. curacies of Betley, Chesterton, Golden-Hill, Keele, Kidsgrove, Mowcop, New Chapel, Newcastle-St. George, Silverdale, and Talk-o'-the-Hill	Imperial
  LONDON		Hill, Childs-Hill, HarrowWeald, Roxeth, Wembly, Pinner, and Little Stanmore; and the two chapelries of Kilburn. The deanery of St. Martin-in-the Fields contains the rectories of St. Maryle-Strand, St. Clement-Danes, St. Anne-Soho, and St. Paul-Covent-garden; the vicarage of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; the p. curacies of St. Michael-Burleigh-street, St. John-Drury-lane, and St. Mary-Soho; and the chapelries of St. Matthew-Spring-gardens, St. Mark-Long-Acre, and Savoy-Strand. The deanery of St. Marylebone, that of Paddington, and that of St. Pancras, contain all the livings in respectively	Imperial
  NEWPORT		Hill, and the latter contains a monument to the missionary Tyerman; a Baptist chapel is in Castle-Hold; a Quaker's chapel and a Unitarianchapel are in High-street; chapels for Wesleyans, Primi-tive Methodists, United Free Methodists, and Roman Catholics, are in Pyle-street; a Brethren's chapel is in Union-street; a Bible Christians' chapel is in Quay-street; and an Irvingite chapel, or Catholic and Aposto-lic church, is in Holyrood-street. The old cemetery is adjacent to Corsham-street; was formed, at a visitation of the plague in 1582; was, from time to time, enlarged	Imperial
  NORTHWOOD		Northwood Park is the seat of G. H. Ward, Esq., author of the " Ideal of a Christian Church; " stands on the top of a hill	Imperial
  PETER (St.)		Hill, Buddles, Shallows, Stone, Kingsgate, George-Hill, Reading-Street, Joss-Street, Beards-Hill, Callis-Court, Callis-Grange, Sole-Street, Dane-Court, and parts of North Town, Northwood	Imperial

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