We could not match "POTTERS BAR" 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 14 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 "POTTERS BAR":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  Kilkenny	Kilkenny	potter's clay also occur. The occupations are chiefly agricultural. The co. comprises 10 bars.- Callan, Crannagh, Fassadinin, Galmoy, Gowran	Bartholomew
  KING'S COUNTY	Offaly	KING'S COUNTY , an inland county of the province of LEINSTER, bounded on the east by the county of Kildare	Lewis:Ireland
  LEEDS	Yorkshire	LEEDS , a great town, a township, a parish, and a district in W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the	Imperial
  MANCHESTER	Lancashire Manchester	MANCHESTER , a city, a township, a district, a parish, and a diocese in Lancashire. The city stands at an intersection	Imperial
  MIMMS (SOUTH)	Middlesex	Potters-Bar, and part of the town of Barnet. Acres, 5,153. Real property, £17,096. Pop. in 1851,2,825; in 1861,3,238. Houses	Imperial
  NORTHAW, or Northall	Hertfordshire	Potters-Bar r. station, and 4½ N E by N of Barnet; is a neat place; and has a post	Imperial
  Potters Bar	Middlesex	Potters Bar , eccl. dist. and vil. with ry. sta., South Mimms par., Middlesex - dist., pop. 1267; vil., on NE. border	Bartholomew
  POTTERS-BAR	Middlesex	POTTERS-BAR , a village and a chapelry in South Mimms parish, Middlesex. The village stands near the Great Northern railway	Imperial
  QUEEN'S County	Laoighis	QUEEN'S County, an inland county of the province of LEINSTER, bounded on the east by the counties of Kildare	Lewis:Ireland
  RIDGE	Hertfordshire	Potters-Bar r. station, and 3½ N W of Barnet; and has a post-office under Barnet. The parish	Imperial
  ROSCOMMON	Roscommon	bar, rod, and sheet iron. The value of these works to the manufacturing industry of the country is much diminished by the want of good roads through this mountainous district. The works are near the shore of Lough Allen and 9 miles from Carrick on Shannon, south of the Arigna river, where the royalties chiefly belong to Mr. Tennison, though one is held under the Archbishop of Tuam. There are coal mines on both sides of this mountain ridge, of which the most important is that of Aughabehy, more distant than any from the iron-works. The iron-stone	Lewis:Ireland
  SHENLEY	Hertfordshire	Potters-Bar r. station, and 5 NW of Barnet. It has a post-office under Barnet. Acres, 4,056. Real	Imperial
  WATERFORD	Waterford	WATERFORD (County of), a maritime county of the province of MUNSTER, bounded on the west by that of Cork; on	Lewis:Ireland

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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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