We could not match "SHOEBURYNESS" 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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• 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 "SHOEBURYNESS" (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 "SHOEBURYNESS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BLACKTAIL	Essex	beacon, on the coast of Essex; extending off, from the mouth of the Thames, past Shoeburyness to the Maplin-sand.	Imperial
  CLIFF-TOWN	Essex	Shoeburyness. The following notice of it is given in the Building News of 14 Feb. 1862:-' 'The houses are built	Imperial
  ESSEX	Essex	Shoeburyness, at the mouth of the Thames. Shoals and sands lie off some parts; and numerous islands, situated within the general	Imperial
  MAPLIN SAND	Essex	Shoeburyness. A lighthouse is on its SE side; was erected in 1841; and shows a fixed light, visible at the distance	Imperial
  MOUSE SAND		Shoeburyness. A light-ship was placed on its W side in 1838; is moored over adepth of 5 fathoms; and shows	Imperial
  NORE (The)	London	Shoeburyness, and 47 E of London bridge. It is called distinctively the Great Nore; it adjoins another anchorage, extending south	Imperial
  Shoeburyness	Essex	Shoeburyness , vil. with ry. sta., South Shoebury par., Essex, 3 m. SE. of Southend and 45 E. of London; P.O., T.O.; has extensive	Bartholomew
  Shoebury, South	Essex	Shoebury, South , coast par., Essex (containing Shoeburyness), 1039 ae. and 3424 foreshore, pop. 2251.	Bartholomew
  Southend	Essex	Shoeburyness and 42 miles E. of London by rail, pop. 7979; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank, 2 newspapers. Southend is conterminous	Bartholomew
  SOUTHEND	Essex	Shoeburyness and 3½ S by E of Rochford; dates from a period not earlier than 1800; attracted notice, as a suitable	Imperial
  THAMES (The)	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Essex Gloucestershire Kent Middlesex	Shoeburyness and Sheerness; and expands rapidly thence to the sea at the North Foreland. The estuary abounds with sands and shoals	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.