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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 "SHEPHERDS BUSH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Dalkeith	Midlothian	Dalkeith, a town and a parish in the E of Edinburghshire. The town stands, 182 feet above sea-level, on	Groome
  Habbie's Howe	Midlothian	Shepherd. This has been contended by many persons to be a spot in Penicuik parish near the head of Logan or Glencorse Burn, 10½ miles S by W of Edinburgh and 4 WNW of Penicuik town. Towards the upper part of a glen, a streamlet falls, from between two stunted birches, over a precipitous rock, 20 feet in height, and inaccessible on either side of the linn; beneath, the water spreads into a little pool or basin. So far the scenery answers exactly to the description Between twa birks, out o'er a little linn, The water	Groome
  HAMMERSMITH	Middlesex	Shepherd's Bush, was built in 1850. St. John's church, in Bradmore, was built in 1859, at a cost	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Shepherds'-bush-lane; curves then to the south; crosses the Hammersmith and City line near Broadway, in Hammersmith, and proceeds	Imperial
  NOTTING-DALE	Middlesex	Shepherd's Bush station, 4½ miles W of St. Paul's. It was constituted in 1864; and its post	Imperial
  NOTTING-HILL	Middlesex	Shepherds-Bush stations, a post-office‡ of the name of Notting-Hill, in High-street under London W, other	Imperial
  Peeblesshire or Tweeddale	Peebles Shire	Bush aboon Traquair, and Principal Shairp's new version under the same name; and William Laidlaw's tender ballad Luey's Flittin', which has immortalised the Glen. A graphic, if somewhat burlesque, picture of Scottish lowland life in the early 15th century is given in Peblis to the Play, usually ascribed to James I.; and a more satirical account of clerical vices towards the end of the same century, in the anonymous Thrie Priestis of Peebles. Alexander Geddes (1737-1802), formerly tutor in the Earl of Traquair's family, wrote about 178l, Linton; a Tweeddale Pastoral, in honour	Groome
  Perth	Perthshire	Perth (perhaps from Gaelic Bar-tatha, 'height of Tay'), formerly also St Johnstoun, is the name of an ancient city	Groome
  Shepherd's Bush	Middlesex	Shepherd's Bush , eccl. dist. and ry. sta., Hammersmith par. and bor., Middlesex, pop. 4000; the sta. is 2¾ miles	Bartholomew
  SHEPHERDS-BUSH	Middlesex	SHEPHERDS-BUSH , a metropolitan suburb in Kensington parish, Middlesex; on the Metropolitan railway, 5½ miles W by S of St. Paul	Imperial
  St Mary's Loch	Peebles Shire Selkirkshire	bush, nor brake is there, Save where. of land. yon slender line Bears thwart the lake the scattered pine. Nor thicket. dell. nor copse you spy Where living thing concealed might lie; Nor point, retiring. hides a dell, where swain, or woodman lone, might dwell; There's nothing left to Fancy's guess,- You see that all is loneliness: and silence aids though the steep hills Send to the lake a thousand rills; In summer-tide so soft they weep, The sound but lulls the car asleep; Your horse's hoof-tread sounds too rude- So stilly is the solitude	Groome
  Uxbridge Road	Middlesex	Uxbridge Road , ry. sta. (for Shepherd's Bush), Middlesex, in W. of London, between Wormwood Scrubbs and Kensington (Addison Road).	Bartholomew
  Yarrow Water	Selkirkshire	bush, And leaves around them hinging. ' "But in the glen strove arméd men; They've wrought me dule and sorrow; They've slain - the comeliest knight they've slain - He bleeding lies on Yarrow." 'She kissed his cheek, she kaimed his hair, She searched his wounds all thorough; She kissed them, till her lips grew red, On the dowie houms of Yarrow. We hear the same sad burden of a lover lost, by drowning in Yarrow or by a rival's sword, in Willie's rare, and Willie'sfair (circa 1525; first printed 1724), in Hamilton of Bangour	Groome

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