We could not match "SOUTRA" 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 19 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 "SOUTRA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Allen	Roxburghshire	Soutra: and Scott laid here the scene of his Monastery. Instead, however, of the single peel-house of ' Glendearg, ' three	Groome
  Blackshiels	East Lothian Midlothian	Soutra Hill, 16 miles SE of Edinburgh. It has a head post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph	Groome
  Channelkirk	Berwickshire	Soutra and Humbie in Haddingtonshire. Its greatest length, from N to S, is 6½ miles; its greatest breadth, from	Groome
  Cranston	Midlothian	Soutra, it bore the monkish inscription-` Diversorium infra, Habitaculum supra.' To the Cranston family this parish gave the title of Baron	Groome
  Dalkeith	Midlothian	Soutra, Glencorse, Heriot, Inveresk, Lasswade, Newbattle, Newton, Ormiston, Penicuik, and Temple; the quoad sacra parishes of West Dalkeith, North Esk, Rosewell	Groome
  Dunfermline	Fife	Soutra Hill at the watershed of the Gala and the Tyne, the Pentlands in Midlothian, Tinto in Lanarkshire, the Campsie	Groome
  Edinburghshire or Midlothian	Midlothian	Soutra Hill. There is no good history of Edinburghshire, but reference may be made to The County of Edirburgh; its Geology	Groome
  Fala and Soutra	Midlothian	Soutra , united par., Edinburghshire and Haddingtonshire, 6064 ac., pop. 312; contains Fala , vil. (conjoint with BLACKSHIELS: which see), on E. border	Bartholomew
  Fala and Soutra	East Lothian Midlothian	Soutra portion. By Brothershiels Burn, Dean Burn, and East Water, Fala is parted from Soutra; and Armit Water runs south	Groome
  Girthgate	Midlothian Roxburghshire	moors to the ancient hospice of Soutra. Traces of it still exist.— Ord. Sur ., sh. 25, 33, 1865-63.	Groome
  Girthgate	Roxburghshire	bridle-road, still traceable, up the vale of Allen Water, from Old Melrose, Roxburghshire, to the hospitium of Soutra, Haddingtonshire.	Bartholomew
  Haddingtonshire or East Lothian	East Lothian	Soutra Hill (1209). The northern plain between the base of the hill country and the sea has its surface interrupted	Groome
  Humbie	East Lothian	Soutra, and W by Fala in Edinburghshire; and it contains the post office of Upper Keith, 2 miles NE of Blackshiels	Groome
  Melrose	Roxburghshire	Soutra hospice by Colmslie, near the centre of the northern portion of the parish and across the Tweed to the bend	Groome
  Soutra	East Lothian Midlothian	Soutra, an ancient parish on the SW border of Haddingtonshire, annexed since 1589 to the contiguous parish of Fala in Edinburghshire	Groome
  Soutra	East Lothian	Soutra , ancient par., now in Fala and Soutra par., Haddingtonshire; the ancient hospital and church of "Soltre" stood	Bartholomew
  Stow	Midlothian Selkirkshire	Soutra, NE by Channelkirk, E by Channelkirk, Lauder, and Melrose, SE by Galashiels, S by Selkirk and Yarrow, SW and W by Innerleithen	Groome
  Tyne	East Lothian Midlothian	Soutra, and in the extreme S of Humbie, and, after courses of from 4 to 6½ miles, attain a general	Groome
  Watling Street	Roxburghshire	Soutra Hill, in the small projecting district of Haddingtonshire; and descending thence it turns to the left, pursues a north	Groome

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