We could not match "SEMPRINGHAM" 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 9 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 "SEMPRINGHAM" (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 "SEMPRINGHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ELLERTON-PRIORY	Yorkshire	Sempringham order was founded here, about the year 1212, by Wiliam Fitz Piers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese	Imperial
  FORDHAM	Cambridgeshire	Sempringham abbey, was founded here, in the time of Henry III., by Robert de Fordham; and given, at the dissolution	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Sempringham; and the chapelries of Stainfield and Burthorp. The deanery of Ashwardhurn-with-Lafford-first contains the rectories of Bloxholme	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	Sempringham, Stamford, and Thornton. Preceptories of the Knights Templars were at Aslackby and Temple-Bruer. A remarkable hospital was at Spittal	Imperial
  MIRMAUD	Cambridgeshire	miles SE of Wisbeach. A small Gilbertine priory stood here; and was annexed, in the time of Richard I., to Sempringham abbey.	Imperial
  NORTON-DISNEY	Lincolnshire	belonged formerly to Sempringham priory; and contains several ancient monuments and brasses of the Disneys. There is a village school.	Imperial
  Pointon	Lincolnshire	Pointon , township and vil., Sempringham par., Lincolnshire, 2½ miles SE. of Falkingham, pop. 438; P.O.	Bartholomew
  POULTON	Gloucestershire	Sempringham abbey, was founded here, about 1347, by Thomas Seymour. The parish is a meet for the Vale of White	Imperial
  SEATON-CAREW	County Durham	Sempringham, was here; but has left no remains. Vestiges of Roman buildings are occasionally found in the sands. Remains of fortifications	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.