We could not match "SHILTON" 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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• 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. There are no units called "SHILTON" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• 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 "SHILTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Earl Shilton	Leicestershire	Earl Shilton , township, Kirkby Mallory par., S. Leicester. 4 m. NE. of Hinckley, 920ac., pop. 2552; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  EARL-SHILTON	Leicestershire	SHILTON , a chapelry and a sub-district in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Kirkby-Mallory parish; and lies	Imperial
  ELMSTHORPE	Leicestershire	Shilton, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, not reported. Patrons, Trustees. The church was used as the head-quarters of Richard	Imperial
  FOLESHILL	Warwickshire	Shilton, Withybrook, Wyken, Stoke, and Binley, and the hamlet of Willenhall. Acres, 19, 389. Poor-rates in 1862, £11, 555. Pop. in 1851, 18, 527; in 1861, 19, 997. Houses	Imperial
  HINCKLEY	Leicestershire Warwickshire	Shilton, containing the chapelry of Earl-Shilton, the parish of Elmsthorpe, and the township of Barwell; and the sub-district	Imperial
  Kirkby Mallory	Leicestershire	Shilton), 3110 ac., pop. 2442; township, 2190 ac., pop. 190; Kirkby Mallory Hall , 4m. SE. of Market Bosworth, is the seat	Bartholomew
  KIRKBY-MALLORY	Leicestershire	Shilton, which has a post office under Hinckley. Acres, of the parish, 3, 110. Real property, £11, 339. Pop., 2, 392. Houses	Imperial
  Shilton	Warwickshire	Shilton , par. and vil. with ry. sta., Warwickshire, 9 miles NW. of Rugby, 1075 ac., pop. 413; near the vil. is Shilton	Bartholomew
  Shilton	Oxfordshire	Shilton .-- par. and vil., Oxfordshire, in W. of co.- par., 1604 ac., pop. 287; vil., 6 m. W. of Witney	Bartholomew
  SHILTON	Oxfordshire	SHILTON , a parish, with a village, in Witney district, Oxford; 6 miles W by S of Witney r. station. Post	Imperial
  SHILTON	Warwickshire	SHILTON , a village and a parish in Foleshill district, Warwick. The village stands near the Northwestern railway and the Oxford	Imperial
  Shilton Earl	Leicestershire	Shilton Earl . See EARL SHILTON.	Bartholomew
  WITHYBROOK	Warwickshire	Shilton r. station, and 8 NE by E of Coventry. Post town, Coventry. Acres, 2,520. Real property, £4,741. Pop., 337. Houses	Imperial
  WOLVEY	Warwickshire	Shilton r. station, and 4 S of Hinckley. It has a post-office under Hinckley. Acres, 3,790. Real property	Imperial

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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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