We could not match "UPPER HOLLOWAY" 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 9 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  UPPER HOLLOWAY LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	ISLINGTON MetB (Local Government District)
  UPPER HOLLOWAY	Registration sub-District	ISLINGTON RegD/PLPar (Poor Law Union/Reg. District)

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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 "UPPER HOLLOWAY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BATH	Somerset	BATH , a city and a district in Somerset. The city stands on the river Avon, the Fossé way, Akeman	Imperial
  HIGHGATE	Middlesex	Upper Holloway; extends about 1¼ mile to the NNW; and contains many villa residences and many good shops. Its environs	Imperial
  HOLLOWAY	Middlesex	HOLLOWAY , a metropolitan suburb and nine chapelries, in Islington parish, Middlesex. The suburb lies along the Great North road, in the hollow S of Highgate, on the Tottenham and Hampstead railway, adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 3¾ miles NNW of St. Paul's; has stations on the railways, and post offices ‡ under London N; comprises two parts, Lower H. on the S, Upper	Imperial
  ISLINGTON	Middlesex	Upper-street, Lower Holloway, and Upper Holloway, to Highgate. Acres, 1, 228 and 1,889. Pop. in 1861, 75, 442 and 79, 899. Houses	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  MUNSLOW	Shropshire	Holloway and Topley, the hamlet of Bachmill, and part of the township of Hungerford. Acres, 3, 504. Real property, £6,034. Pop., 712. Houses, 138. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to O.Pemberton, Esq. Millichope Park is achief residence. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Broadstone, in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £763.* Patron, the Rev. T.Powell. The church is ancient; consists of nave, N aisle, chancel, and chantry chapel, with a low tower; contains an ancient font, and several monuments; and was recently in bad condition. A chapel	Imperial
  Upper Holloway	Middlesex	Upper Holloway , ry. sta. (for St John's Park), Islington par., Middlesex, in N. of London.	Bartholomew

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