We could not match "REDBOURN" 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 10 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you typed a postcode, it needs to be a full postcode: some letters, then some numbers, then more letters. Old-style postal districts like "SE3" are not precise enough (if you know the location but do not have a precise postcode or placename, see below):
  
  
  
  
  
• If you are looking for a place-name, it needs to be the name of a town or village, or possibly a district within a town. We do not know about individual streets or buildings, unless they give their names to a larger area (though you might try our collections of Historical Gazetteers and British travel writing). Do not include the name of a county, region or nation with the place-name: if we know of more than one place in Britain with the same name, you get to choose the right one from a list or map:
  
  
  
  
  
• 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 "REDBOURN" (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 "REDBOURN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALBANS (St.)	Hertfordshire	Redbourn, Codicote, Shephall, Brantfield, Elstree, Sarratt, Hexton, Norton, Ridge, St. Paul's Walden, Northaw, Newnham, Rickmansworth, and Watford. Quarter sessions	Imperial
  GLANFORD-BRIGG, Glanford-Bridge, or Brigg	Lincolnshire	Redbourne, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Manton, Scawby-cum-Sturton, Hibaldstow, and Cadney, and the extra-parochial tract of Newstead. Acres, 52, 077. Pop., 12, 326. Houses	Imperial
  HERTFORDSHIRE, or Herts	Hertfordshire	Redbourn House, Ash Park, Bedwell Park, Beechwood Park, Claremont, Dell Row, Gadesbridge, Hartsbourn House, Brockett Hall, Lockleys, Haughton, Holywell Hill	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Redbourne, Roxby, Risby, Scawby, and Winterton; and the p. curacies of Gunhouse and Snitterby. The deanery of Nottingham-first contains	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	Redbourne House, Belvoir Castle, Belton House, Brocklesby Hall, Uffington Hall, Haverholme Priory, Nocton Park, Grimsthorpe Castle, Burghley House, Burton Hall	Imperial
  Redbourn	Hertfordshire	Redbourn , par. and vil. with ry. sta., Herts, on river Ver, 4½ miles NW. of St Albans by road	Bartholomew
  REDBOURN	Hertfordshire	REDBOURN , a village and a parish in St. Albans district, Herts. The village stands on the river Ver, 2¼ miles	Imperial
  Redbourne	Lincolnshire	Redbourne , par. and vil., Lincolnshire, 6 miles SW. of Brigg, 3919 ac., pop. 307; P.O.; Redbourne Hall is the seat	Bartholomew
  REDBOURNE	Lincolnshire	REDBOURNE , a village and a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln. The village stands near Ermine-street, 2¾ miles	Imperial
  VER (The)	Hertfordshire	running about 11 miles south-south-eastward, past Redbourn and St. Albans, to the Colne 4 miles NW of Watford.	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.