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

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  SPITALFIELDS LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	STEPNEY MetB (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 "SPITALFIELDS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BETHNAL GREEN		Spitalfields. The Columbia Buildings are a fine group of industrial dwellings and grand quadrangular market, with a massive tower, erected	Imperial
  CHRISTCHURCH-SPITALFIELDS		SPITALFIELDS , a parish in Whitechapel district, Middlesex; in the eastern part of the metropolis, near the terminus of the Eastern	Imperial
  DUBLIN		Spitalfields, Weavers'-square, and the neighbouring streets, chiefly in the Liberties of the city, were built; and this portion of the metropolis	Lewis:Ireland
  LONDON		Spitalfields contains the numerous livings in Spitalfields, Whitechapel, and Bethnal-Green, and the chapelry of London hospital. The deanery of Stepney	Imperial
  Macclesfield		Spitalfield weavers. The town has extensive mfrs. of upholsterers' trimmings, a few cotton and smallware factories and some breweries. Coal	Bartholomew
  MACCLESFIELD		Spitalfields in London; and is now conducted both in extensive establishments by itself, and in establishments conjoint with silk manufacture	Imperial
  MILE-END-NEW-TOWN		Spitalfields, and Bethnal-Green parishes, 1¾ mile ENE of St. Pauls; was once a part of the ancient parish	Imperial
  Paisley		Spitalfields. The success of this new departure exceeded all expectation, and being vigorously prosecuted, the whole silk-gauze trade was soon	Groome
  Spitalfield		Spitalfield , vil., Caputh par., Perthshire, 3 miles N. of Murthly ry. sta.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Spitalfields		Spitalfields , par., Middlesex, in parl. bor. of Tower Hamlets, 73 ac., pop. 21,340; after 1685 was extensively settled by French	Bartholomew
  SPITALFIELDS		SPITALFIELDS , a parish and a sub-district in Whitechapel district, Middlesex. The parish lies on the Great Eastern railway, and to the S of it, 1 mile	Imperial
  Stepney		Ratcliff; prior to 1669 it also included Limehouse, Shadwell, St George in the East, Spitalfields, Bethual Green, Bow, and Poplar.	Bartholomew
  STEPNEY		Spitalfields, Bethnal-Green, Bow, Poplar, and Blackwall; was known at Domesday as Stebenhede, and afterwards as Stebunhithe, Stebenhythe, and Stebonheath	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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