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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 "BRIGHTLINGSEA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Brightlingsea	Essex	Brightlingsea , par. and seaport with ry. sta., NE. Essex, on estuary of river Colne, 8 miles SE. of Colchester, 2869 ac. abd 678 tidal	Bartholomew
  BRIGHTLINGSEA	Essex	BRIGHTLINGSEA , a village and a parish in Lexden district, Essex. The village stands on the estuary of the Colne, opposite	Imperial
  Cindery Islands	Essex	Cindery Islands , 2 narrow islets in the river Colne, at Brightlingsea, E. Essex.	Bartholomew
  COLCHESTER	Essex	Brightlingsea. The vessels registered at it, in the beginning of 1863, were 201 small sailing-vessels, of aggregately 3, 807 tons	Imperial
  LEXDEN	Essex	Brightlingsea; the sub-district of Peldon, containing the parishes of Peldon, Great Wigborough, Little Wigborough, Salcott, Virley, Fingringhoe, East Donyland	Imperial
  MERSEA	Essex	Brightlingsea r. station, and 7¼ S by E of Colchester. It has an oval form, 5 miles long and 2¼ broad	Imperial
  MERSEA (EAST)	Essex	Brightlingsea r. station, and 8 S by E of Colchester. It comprises the eastern part of Mersea island, and has a post	Imperial
  MERSEA (WEST)	Essex	Brightlingsea r. station, and 8 S by W of Colchester. It comprises the western part of Mersea island, and has a post	Imperial
  OSYTH (St.)	Essex	Brightlingsea r. station, and 11 S E of Colchester; is one of the oldest places in the county; was known	Imperial
  Sandwich	Kent	Brightlingsea), 6961 ac., pop. 35,627; bor., 706 ac., pop. 2846; 2 Banks. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday . Sandwich rose	Bartholomew
  THORRINGTON	Essex	Brightlingsea. It has a post-office under Colchester, and a r. station. Acres, 1,930. Real property, £2,125. Pop., 424. Houses	Imperial
  WIVENHOE	Essex	Brightlingsea and Rowhedge, a member of the cinque port of S and wich; serves as the Colchester out-port, where	Imperial

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