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The Gazetteer of British Place Names is a unique source of geographical information. It has three main functions:
it provides the most exhaustive Place Name Index to Great Britain currently available, containing over 50,000 entries including commonly accepted alternative spellings and Welsh and Gaelic versions.
it lists the County in which each place lies
it lists the name of the most important administrative areas (i.e. of local government, police, health authority, region and lieutenancy) in which each place lies.
http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/
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- Gazetteer for Scotland
a vast geographical database, featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. The first comprehensive gazetteer produced for Scotland since 1885, it includes tourist attractions, industries and historic sites, together with histories of family names and biographies of famous people associated with Scotland.
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/
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- KnowUK (subscription resource)
includes the Hutchinson UK Gazetteer
LIBRARY PCs ONLY ACCESS
http://www.knowuk.co.uk
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- United States Gazetteer
Uses 1990 census data
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
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- Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns
a directory of 2880532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town. Lattitude and Longitude given
http://www.calle.com/world/
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