I'm late to this debate.
Have you tried the 1831 census abstract? This lists more places than any other census volume. I had lots of fun digitising it and discovered that to make it compatible with later censuses I needed to group some of the places given.
Again you need to use imagination with some of the spellings.
It's online with histpop.
David
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From: From: Local-History list on behalf of John Chapman
Sent: Mon 05/05/2008 11:59
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Subject: Re: [LOCAL-HISTORY] p[lace names from 1881 Census
Humphrey
Thanks for the tip
I have tried all the remaining nine places and got nowhere.
However a brilliant site which I will remember for the future
John
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From: "Humphrey Southall" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [LOCAL-HISTORY] p[lace names from 1881 Census
> Or you could try my "Vision of Britain" site. There are several ways to
> use it, but one is to do a search of its "descriptive gazetteers" -- for
> England, Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887) and John
> Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872) -- from
> here:
>
> http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions
>
> One option you can try is "search head words for sound-alikes", which
> will then try to find names that sound like the name in the census
> listing. For example, if you use this to search for "Findrington" and
> specify the county as Cambridgeshire, it comes up with "Fen Drayton".
> Another option is to search the full text of the gazetteer entries,
> which will find names MENTIONED, rather than just those which are the
> subjects of entries.
>
> Two big caveats:
>
> (1) The texts of the gazetteers was computerised using an optical
> character recognition system. Although it has been read for errors
> once, it would benefit from further proof reading.
>
> (2) The sound-alike matching the system does uses the software built in
> to the database as written by Oracle Corporation. For England the
> biggest problem is that it comes back with some daft matches as well as
> sensible ones, but for Wales it is pretty useless.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Humphrey Southall
>
>>>> "Postles, D.A." <[log in to unmask]> 04/05/08 8:45 PM >>>
> You could try working through Lewis's Topographical Dictionary online
> which is arranged alphabetically. Bovington is Bovingdon, for example.
>
> http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=445
>
> Dave Postles
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> From: From: Local-History list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of John Chapman [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 04 May 2008 19:39
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [LOCAL-HISTORY] p[lace names from 1881 Census
>
> I am trying to compile a list of men who were with the 66th Regiment
> and
> survived to take part in the 1881 Census. The enumerators seem to be
> using
> somewhat eccentric spellings and I am not sure they got the counties
> right
> either
>
> The following have evaded me so far
>
> BOGNOR Hants
> BOVINGTON Herts
> FINDRINGTON Cambs
> FOWNER Bucks
> KINGDON Berks [Kingston?]
> NEWCASTLE Durham
> NEWHAM Dorset
> PEDLEY BRIDGE Yorks
> SENDLY Durham
> SOUTHERTON Berks
> STEIPE Oxon
> SUN BARTON Yorks
> TYLEHURST Bucks
> WESTHAM Essex
> WEST OLVERTON Berks
> WHITECHURCH Som [Whitchurch?]
> WHITEFORD Warks
>
> Any ideas would be welcomed
>
> thanks
>
> John Chapman
>
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