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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 "ALLONBY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Allonby	Cumberland	Allonby , ecclesiastical district and seaport vil., West Newton and Allonby township, Bromfield par., Cumberland, on Allonby Bay, 6 miles NE. of Maryport	Bartholomew
  ALLONBY	Cumberland	ALLONBY , a seaport village, a chapelry, and a township, in Bromfield parish, Cumberland. The village stands on a wide open	Imperial
  BROMFIELD	Cumberland	Allonby; and has post offices of Langrigg under Carlisle and Allonby under Maryport. Acres, 14,644; of which 573 are water	Imperial
  CARLISLE	Cumberland	Allonby and Port-Carlisle as subports. The vessels registered at it in 1868 were 8 sailing-vessels, of aggregately 288 tons	Imperial
  Dubmill	Cumberland	Cumberland, 1½ m. NW. of Allonby; in vicinity is D. Point; an adjacent sandbank, 1 m. long, is called D. Scar .	Bartholomew
  DUBMILL	Cumberland	light-ship, 1½ mile N of Allonby. Dubmill Swap is a bank 1 mile long in the adjacent sea.	Imperial
  HOLME-ST. CUTHBERT	Cumberland	Allonby, under Maryport. Real property, £6, 362. Pop., 821. Houses, 148. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs	Imperial
  IRISH SEA		Allonby, St. Bees Head, the Peel of Fouldray, Formby point, the Mersey's mouth and the Dee's mouth, on the E; on Puffin	Imperial
  Lee Scar Rocks	Cumberland	Allonby; has lighthouse 45 ft. high, with fixed light (Lee Scar) 25 ft. above high water and seen 10 miles	Bartholomew
  LEE-SCAR-ROCKS	Cumberland	miles N of Allonby. A lighthouse was erected here in 1841; and has a fixed light, at a height of 25 feet.	Imperial
  MALBRAY-HAYRIGG and OLD MALBRAY	Cumberland	HAYRIGG and OLD MALBRAY , two hamlets in the NW of Cumberland; on the coast, 3¼ miles N of Allonby.	Imperial
  Malbray, Old	Cumberland	Malbray, Old , vil., on coast of Cumberland, 3 miles N. of Allonby; P.O.	Bartholomew
  MEALO	Cumberland	MEALO , a township, conjoint with Huyton, in Aspatria parish, Cumberland; 2 miles SE of Allonby.	Imperial
  Mealrigg	Cumberland	Mealrigg , vil., Bromfield par., Cumberland, 4 miles NE. of Allonby. See LANGRIGG AND MEALRIGG.	Bartholomew
  MEALRIGG	Cumberland	hamlet in Bromfield parish, Cumberland; on Crummock beck, 3¼ miles NE of Allonby. lop., 58. There is a mineral spring.	Imperial
  NEWTON (West)	Cumberland	Allonby. The township includes also Allonby, and bears the name of West Newton and Allonby. Acres, 1, 794; of which	Imperial
  Newton, West, and Allonby	Cumberland	Allonby , township, Bromfield par., Cumberland, 3751 ac. and 413 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 868; P.O. at Allonby ; West Newton	Bartholomew
  Old Malbray	Cumberland	Old Malbray , hamlet, on coast of Cumberland, 3 miles N. of Allonby; P.O.	Bartholomew
  ROBIN-RIGG-BANK	Cumberland	Allonby. It is 3 mileslong, and 1 mile broad; and it is marked by the Solway light-vessel, placed here	Imperial

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