We could not match "BILLY" 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 "BILLY" (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 "BILLY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Billy	Antrim	Billy , par., N. co. Antrim, containing part of Bushmills, on river Bush, 17,290 ac., pop. 5277.	Bartholomew
  BILLY	Antrim	BILLY , a parish, partly in the barony of CAREY, but chiefly in that of LOWER DUNLUCE, county of ANTRIM, and province	Lewis:Ireland
  Billy Castle	Berwickshire	Billy Castle , 13th century ruins, NE. Berwickshire, near Reston.	Bartholomew
  BILLY-QUAY	County Durham	BILLY-QUAY , a village in Heworth chapelry, Durham; on the river Tyne, 3 ¼. miles E of Gateshead. Here are works	Imperial
  Billy Row	County Durham	Billy Row . See CROOK AND BILLY RO.	Bartholomew
  BRANCEPETH	County Durham	Billy Row. Acres, 22,525. Real property, with Cornsay township, £75,151; of which £42,784 are in mines	Imperial
  Bunkle and Preston	Berwickshire	Billy Mains (225); north-westward to points upon Drake Mire 530,708, and 660 feet above the level of the sea. The rocks	Groome
  BUSHMILLS	Antrim	BILLY which is in the barony of CAREY, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, 6 ¼ miles (N. E. by N.) from	Lewis:Ireland
  CROOK	County Durham	Billy-row; lies on an affluent of the river Wear, and on the Weardale Extension railway, 5½ miles NNW of Bishop	Imperial
  Crook and Billy Row	County Durham	Crook and Billy Row , township (ry. sta. Crook), Brancepeth par., S. Durham, 4058 ac., pop. 11,096.	Bartholomew
  DUNLUCE, or DOONLISS	Antrim	Billy, and Dunseverick. A loan fund was established in 1828, for which purpose the late Hugh Montgomery, Esq., gave £100. The ruins	Lewis:Ireland
  DUNSEVERICK, or DOONSERE	Antrim	Billy and Ballintoy, out of which parishes it was formed under the act of the 7th and 8th of George	Lewis:Ireland
  GIANTS' CAUSEWAY		GIANTS' CAUSEWAY .—See BILLY.	Lewis:Ireland
  Kirkcudbright	Kirkcudbrightshire	Billy Marshall, the Tinkler (1672-1792), are buried William Hunter, Robert Smith, and John Hallume, executed at Kirkcudbright for adherence	Groome
  Lisnagunogue	Antrim	Lisnagunogue , vil., Billy par., N. co. Antrim, 3 miles NE. of Bushmills.	Bartholomew
  Straidbilly	Antrim	Straidbilly , vil., Billy par., N. co. Antrim, 2 miles SE. of Bushmills, pop. 141.	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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