We could not match "SCARBA" 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 "SCARBA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Argyllshire	Argyll	Scarba island and past the Gulf of Corrievrekin; projects from its northern part Loch Craignish north-north-eastward, and Loch	Groome
  Corrievrechan	Argyll	Corrievrechan , strait and whirlpool, between Jura and Scarba islands, Inner Hebrides, Argyllshire.	Bartholomew
  Corrievrechan	Argyll	Scarba. Scarcely a mile across, it lies about 2 miles W of the route of the Oban steamers, and is seldom	Groome
  Crinan	Argyll	Scarba and Luing islands, to the Firth of Lorn. Its head is narrow and tame; but most of its north	Groome
  Fladda Lighthouse	Argyll	island at N. end of Scarba Sound, Argyllshire; has a fixed light (Phladda Island) 42 ft. above high water and seen 11 miles.	Bartholomew
  Hebrides or Western Islands	Scotland	Scarba, Luiug, Shuna, and Seil. To the E of Islay, and within a mile and a half of the Kintyre	Groome
  Islay	Argyll	Scarba, and Muckairn, continued to be held, for several generations, by the descendants of the Macdonalds; but they were transferred	Groome
  Jura	Argyll	Scarba by the Gulf of Corryvreckan; greatest length, 27 miles; greatest breadth, 8½ miles; pop. 773; par. (including also	Bartholomew
  Jura	Argyll	Scarba, and lies opposite Knapdale and the southern extremity of Lorn, at distances decreasing from 12 to 2½ miles	Groome
  Lunga	Argyll	Lunga .-- island, Jura par., Argyllshire, off N. coast of Scarba island, pop. 17.	Bartholomew
  Lunga	Argyll	Scarba Sound. It extends 1½ mile from N to S; has a maximum breadth of 1 mile; is separated	Groome
  Scarba	Argyll	rises to an alt. of 1500 ft., and contains Scarba Deer Forest , 3676 ac.; Scarba Sound separates Scarba island on the NE from Luing island.	Bartholomew
  Scarba	Argyll	Scarba, an island in the Hebridean parish of Jura and Colonsay, Argyllshire. It lies 1½ mile -N of the island	Groome
  Shuna	Argyll	Scarba; yet it presents interesting objects of study to a geologist, and at each end it has a bed of dark	Groome

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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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