Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARNSTON

BARNSTON, a township in Woodchurch parish, Cheshire; 4 miles N of Great Neston. It has a post office under Birkenhead. There is a tunnel of the Grand Trunk canal here, 550 yards long. Acres, 1,068. Real property, £1,325. Pop., 252. Houses, 52.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Barnston CP/Tn       Woodchurch CP/AP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Barnston

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