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HALSTON, an extra-parochial tract in Oswestry district, Salop; near the Ellesmere canal and the Shrewsbury and Chester railway, 4 miles ENE of Oswestry. Acres, 700. Pop., 33. Houses, 2. A preceptory of the Knights Templars, afterwards of the Knights Hospitallers, was here; was given, in the time of Elizabeth, to William Horne; and passed to the Myttons. Halston Hall was long the seat of the Myttons; one of whom was a well known sportsman, familiarly called Jack Mytton.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "an extra-parochial tract" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Oswestry RegD/Inc/PLU Shropshire AncC |
Place: | Halston |
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