We could not match "WHATTON" 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 15 possible matches we have found for you:

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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 "WHATTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASLACTON, or Aslockton	Nottinghamshire	Whatton, Notts; on the river Smite, adjacent to the Nottingham and Grantham railway, 3¼ miles E of Bingham. It has a station	Imperial
  Aslockton	Nottinghamshire	Notts, 3 miles E. of Bingham, 3100 ac. (with Whatton), pop. 404; P.O. Archbishop Cranmer (1489-1556) was a native.	Bartholomew
  BINGHAM	Nottinghamshire	Whatton, Elton, Granby, Langar, Shelton, Sibthorpe, Flintham, Kneeton, East Bridgford, Car-Colston, Screveton, Hawksworth, Thoroton, Orston, Scarrington, Barkestone, and Plungar	Imperial
  LEICESTERSHIRE, or LEICESTER	Leicestershire	Whatton House, Wigston Hall, and Withcot Hall. The county is governed by a lord lieutenant, about 20 deputy lieutenants, and about	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Whatton; the p. curacies of Kneeton, Scarrington, Thorston, and Shelford; and the donative of Tithby. The deanery of Bingham-third	Imperial
  Long Whatton	Leicestershire	Long Whatton , Leicestershire, 4½ miles NW. of Loughborough; P.O. See WHATTON, LONG.	Bartholomew
  LOUGHBOROUGH	Leicestershire	Whatton, and Hathern, and the extra-parochial tracts of Bardon and Garendon. Acres, 20,400. Pop., 17,583. Houses, 3,965. -The district	Imperial
  NORTHUMBERLAND	Northumberland	Whatton, Whitley, Whitchester, Rosedon-Edge, Kirk-newton, Black Dykes, Bolam, Outchester, Spindeston, Belford, Rothbury, Castlehill near Callany, Glanton-Pike, Berwick	Imperial
  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE or Notts	Nottinghamshire	Whatton, toward Grantham; the Southwell railway deflects from the Nottingham and Lincoln at Fiskerton, goes northwestward to Southwell, and was in course	Imperial
  Smite	Leicestershire Nottinghamshire	Leicestershire and Notts; rises 2½ miles SE. of Nether Broughton, and flows 11 miles N. to the Devon at Whatton.	Bartholomew
  SMITE (The)	Leicestershire Nottinghamshire	Notts; rising 2½ miles SE of Nether Broughton; and running about 11 miles northward to the Devon at Whatton.	Imperial
  Whatton	Nottinghamshire	Whatton , par. and vil., Notts - par., 3100 ac. (including Aslockton), pop. 283; vil., on river Smite, 2½ miles E. of Bingham	Bartholomew
  WHATTON	Nottinghamshire	WHATTON , a township and a parish in Bingham district, Notts. The township lies on the river Smite, ¾ mile SE of Aslackton	Imperial
  Whatton, Long	Leicestershire	Whatton, Long , par. and vil., Leicestershire - par., 2050 ac., pop. 702; vil., 4½ miles NW. of Loughborough; P.O.; in vicinity	Bartholomew
  WHATTON (Long)	Leicestershire	WHATTON (Long) , a parish, with a village, in Loughborough district, Leicester; 2¾ miles W by N of Hathern r. station	Imperial

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