We could not match "CRAIGMILLAR" 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 11 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 "CRAIGMILLAR" (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 "CRAIGMILLAR":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Craigend	Midlothian	Craigmillar Castle, 2¾ miles SSE of Edinburgh. Built in 1869, it is a large edifice in the Gothic style	Groome
  Craigmillar Castle	Midlothian	Craigmillar Castle , ruins, in co. and 3 miles SE. of Edinburgh; was a favourite residence of Queen Mary.	Bartholomew
  Craigmillar Castle	Midlothian	Craigmillar,' and propounded to Mary herself; and to Craigmillar it was at first proposed to have Darnley conveyed, instead of to Kirk	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Craigmillar, and the strata which are exposed in the southern part of the town, consisting of red sandstones with red and green	Groome
  France, Little	Midlothian	Craigmillar Castle, and 3 miles SE of Edinburgh. It got its name from being the residence of some of Queen	Groome
  France, Little	Midlothian	France, Little , hamlet, near Craigmillar Castle, Edinburghshire; was the quarters of the French following of Mary Queen of Scots.	Bartholomew
  Jock's Lodge	Midlothian	Craigmillar stone in 1793; comprises a quadrangular, enclosed area (500 x 300 feet); contains accommodation for a regiment of cavalry	Groome
  Leith	Midlothian	Craigmillar quarry, not far from the capital. The masonry extends 35 feet from the top to the bottom of the side	Groome
  Liberton	Midlothian	Craigmillar Castle. Others are the sites and remains of the buildings above mentioned; Peffer Mill, erected in 1636 by one Edgar	Groome
  Little France	Midlothian	Craigmillar Castle, and 1¼ mile N of Gilmerton. The French servants of Queen Mary resided here, when in attendance	Groome
  Portobello	Midlothian	Craigmillar Castle, and the Pentland Hills; and to the W, Arthur's Seat and a glimpse of Edinburgh. See these	Groome

  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.