You searched for "RAITHBY" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 10 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 "RAITHBY" (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 "RAITHBY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BOLINGBROKE (New)	Lincolnshire	Raithby, Asgarby, Miningsby, Revesby, and Frieston parishes, Lincoln; in the fens, 5½ miles SW of Bolingbroke, and 5½ NE of Langrick	Imperial
  HALLINGTON	Lincolnshire	Raithby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church has disappeared; and the site of it is now a burial ground	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Raithby, Little Steeping, Stickney, and Toynton-St. Peter; the vicarages of East Kirkby, Stickford, and Thorpe-St. Peter; and the p. curacies	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	Raithby Hall, Rauceby Hall, Revesby Abbey, Riby Hall, Rock House, Saltfleetby House, Scrafield House, Scremby Hall, Skellingthorpe Hall, Skendleby Lodge	Imperial
  Maltby	Lincolnshire	Maltby .-- hamlet, Raithby by Louth par., Lincolnshire, 2 miles SW. of Louth.	Bartholomew
  MALTBY	Lincolnshire	Raithby-cum-Maltby parish, Lincoln; 2 miles SSW of Louth-It comprises about 1,100 acres; and it anciently had a preceptory	Imperial
  RAITHBY	Lincolnshire	RAITHBY , a village and a parish in Spilsby district, Lincoln. The village stands 2 miles N W of Spilsby, and 6 N W of Firsby	Imperial
  Raithby (by Louth)	Lincolnshire	Raithby (by Louth) , par., Lincolnshire, 2½ miles SW. of Louth, 1930 ac., pop. 169.	Bartholomew
  Raithby (by Spilsby)	Lincolnshire	Raithby ( by Spilsby ), par. and vil., Lincolnshire, 2 miles NW. of Spilsby, 385 ac., pop. 155; P.O.; near vil. is Raithby	Bartholomew
  RAITHBY-CUM-MALTBY	Lincolnshire	RAITHBY-CUM-MALTBY , a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; 2½ miles S W of Louth r. station. Post-town	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.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.