We could not match "BECKINGHAM" 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 16 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 "BECKINGHAM" (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 "BECKINGHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Beckingham	Nottinghamshire	Beckingham , par., N. Notts, 2 miles NW. of Gainsborough, 3010 ac., pop. 448; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Beckingham	Lincolnshire	Beckingham .-- par. with ry. sta., S. Lincolnshire, 5 miles E. of Newark, 2200 ac., pop. 346; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BECKINGHAM	Nottinghamshire	BECKINGHAM , a parish in Gainsborough district, Notts; on the Lincoln and Doncaster railway, 2½ miles W by N of Gainsborough	Imperial
  BECKINGHAM	Lincolnshire	BECKINGHAM , a parish in the district of Newark and county of Lincoln; on the river Witham, 3½ s N of Claypole	Imperial
  FENTON	Lincolnshire	annexed to the rectory of Beckingham, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church has a pinnacled tower, and is good.	Imperial
  GAINSBOROUGH	Lincolnshire	Beckingham, Saundby, Bole, and West Burton, -all electorally in Notts; the sub-district of Willingham, containing the parishes of Willingham	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Beckingham, Brant-Broughton, Carlton-Scroop, Caythorpe, Claypole-North, Claypole-South, Fulbeck, Hougham, Marston, Long Ledenham, Normanton, Stubton, and Westborough; the vicarages	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	Beckingham Hall, Bilsby Hall, Blankney Hall, Bloxholm Hall, Boothby Hall, Bottesford Moor, Boultham Hall, Bourn Abbey, Branston Hall, Brattleby Hall	Imperial
  NEWARK	Nottinghamshire	Beckingham, electorally in Lincoln; the sub-district of Bennington, containing the parishes of Farndon, Hawton, Balderton, Cotham, and Kilvington, and the township	Imperial
  Peartree Hill	Nottinghamshire	Peartree Hill , hamlet, Beckingham par., Notts, 4 miles NW. of Gainsborough.	Bartholomew
  PEARTREE-HILL	Nottinghamshire	PEARTREE-HILL , a hamlet in Beckingham parish, Notts; 4 miles W N W of Gainsborough.	Imperial
  STRAGGLETHORPE	Lincolnshire	belongs to Sir G. E. Welby, Bart. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Beckingham. The church is good.	Imperial
  Sutton	Lincolnshire	Sutton , hamlet, Beckingham par., Lincolnshire, 5 miles SE. of Newark.	Bartholomew
  SUTTON	Lincolnshire	SUTTON , a hamlet in Beckingham parish, Lincoln; 5 miles ESE of Newark.	Imperial
  Tolleshunt Major	Essex	sometimes called Beckingham; an embattled gateway remains of the ancient seat of the Beckinghams, erected in time of Henry VIII.	Bartholomew
  TOLLESHUNT-MAJOR, or Beckingham	Essex	Beckingham, a parish, with a village, in Maldon district, Essex; 4¼ miles ENE of Maldon r. station. It has a post	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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