We could not match "PORCHESTER" 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. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  PORCHESTER LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CARLTON UD (Local Government District)

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find units with names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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 "PORCHESTER":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BITTERN	Hampshire	Porchester, and the ferry to the Isle of Wight, and probably was intended to defend the approach to them; and it became	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	Porchester, on the rivulet Lavant and on the South Coast railway, 1½ mile ENE of the head of Chichester	Imperial
  FAREHAM	Hampshire	Porchester, Wymering, Widley, South-wick, and Boarhunt. Acres, 21, 089. Pop., 9, 640. Houses, 1,804.—The district comprehends	Imperial
  HAMBLEDON	Hampshire	Porchester r. station, and 6½ ESE of Bishops Waltham; is a considerable place; and has a post office‡ under	Imperial
  Porchester (or Portchester)	Hampshire	Porchester Castle , a ruined ancient stronghold, having in its interior a well preserved Saxon church. Porchester gives the title of baron	Bartholomew
  PORCHESTER, or Portchester	Hampshire	PORCHESTER , or Portchester, a village and a parish in Fareham district, Hants. The village stands on a small peninsula of the N W of Portsmouth	Imperial
  Portchester	Hampshire	Portchester , Hants. See PORCHESTER.	Bartholomew
  PORTSMOUTH	Hampshire	Porchester, at the harbour's head, appear to have early suffered inconvenience from the retiring of the sea from their	Imperial
  SALT WAY	Hampshire Warwickshire Worcestershire	Porchester, through Southampton and Winchester, to Colne, St. Aldwin; crossed Akeman-street there; went on to Northleach; crossed the Fosse	Imperial
  SOUTHAMPTONSHIRE, Hampshire, or Hants	Hampshire	Porchester, and Broughton; and Roman roads went from some of these stations to others, and to Old Sarum. Roman camps	Imperial
  SOUTHWICK	Hampshire	Porchester r. station, and 3¾ ENE of Fareham. It has a post-office under Fareham, and a fair on 6 April	Imperial
  WINCHESTER	Hampshire Surrey	Porchester, Silchester, and Old Sarum. The Saxons called it Wintanceaster, signifying the same thing as Caer-Gwent; and made it their	Imperial

  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.



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