We could not match "HOYLAKE" 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 "HOYLAKE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BIDSTONE	Cheshire	Hoylake railway, 3 miles WNW of Birkenhead; and has a railway station. Acres, 1,689. Real property, £3,062. Pop., 282. Houses	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Hoylake, Willaston, Overchurch, Seacombe, Shotwick, Capenhurst, Stoak, Egremont, and New Brighton. The deanery of Warrington contains the rectories of Winwick	Imperial
  HELBRE	Cheshire	Roman station, and has now two beacons to mark the Swash channel, between the Hoyle sands, leading into Hoylake roadstead.	Imperial
  HOOSE, or Hoylake	Cheshire	Hoylake, a village, a township, and a chapelry in West Kirby parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the coast, near	Imperial
  Hoylake	Cheshire	Hoylake , eccl. dist. and coast vil. with ry. sta., West Kirby par., W. Cheshire, at entrance to river Dee - dist	Bartholomew
  Hoyle Lake		Hoyle Lake . See HOYLAKE.	Bartholomew
  KIRBY (West)	Cheshire	Hoylake r. station, and 7½ W by S of Birkenhead; is a small bathingplace; and has a post office	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	Hoylake, to render them light enough to sail over the flats into the Mersey; that the channel up to Liverpool	Imperial
  MEOLSE	Cheshire	MEOLSE , a railway station in Cheshire; on the Hoylake railway, 1 mile E of Hoylake.	Imperial
  MEOLSE (GREAT)	Cheshire	Hoylake railway, at Meolse r. station, 6½ miles W by N of Birkenhead. Acres, 3,883; of which 3,200 are foreshore	Imperial
  MEOLSE (LITTLE)	Cheshire	Hoylake r. station, 8½ miles W of Birkenhead. Acres, 19,926; of which 19,275 are foreshore-water. Real	Imperial
  MORETON	Cheshire	Hoylake railway, 4½ miles WNW of Birkenhead; bears the name of Moreton-cum-Lingham; and has a station, of the name	Imperial
  THURSTASTON	Cheshire	Hoylake r. station. Acres, 2,762; of which 1,515 are water. Real property, £1,219. Pop., 123. Houses	Imperial
  West Kirby	Cheshire	Hoylake), 6744 ac. land and 27,485 water, pop. 4410; township, 440 ac. land and 2870 water, pop. 1118; vil., 9 miles	Bartholomew

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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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