We could not match "MOSTON" 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 13 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  MOSTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	MANCHESTER CB/MB (Local Government District)

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find units with names similar to your search term:
  
  



• 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 "MOSTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CONGLETON	Cheshire	Moston, and Elton in the parish of Warmingham; and the sub-district of Church-Hulme, containing the parishes of Swettenham	Imperial
  FAILSWORTH	Lancashire	four dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, and national schools.—The sub-district includes Moston township. Pop., 8, 312.	Imperial
  HARPURHEY	Lancashire	Moston, together with another and contiguous portion of Manchester parish; bears the name of Harpurhay-cum-Moston; and was made	Imperial
  MANCHESTER	Lancashire Manchester	Moston; the sub-district of Blackley, containing the townships of Blackley and Harpurhey; and the sub-district of Prestwich, containing	Imperial
  Moston	Shropshire	Moston , vil., Stanton upon Hine Heath par., Shropshire, 3 miles SE. of Wem.	Bartholomew
  Moston	Lancashire	Moston , township and ry. sta., Manchester par., SE. Lancashire - township, 1297 ac., pop. 3466; the sta. is 4½ miles	Bartholomew
  Moston	Cheshire	Moston .-- township, Chester St Mary on the Hill par., Cheshire, on Ellesmere Canal, 3 miles NW. of Chester, 303 ac., pop. 19; contains	Bartholomew
  Moston	Cheshire	Moston , township, Warmingham par., Cheshire, on Trent and Mersey Canal, 2½ miles NW. of Sandbach, 714 ac., pop. 180.	Bartholomew
  MOSTON	Shropshire	MOSTON , a township in Stanton-upon-Hineheath parish, Salop; on the river Roden, 3¼ miles ESE of Wem. Pop., 61.	Imperial
  MOSTON	Cheshire	MOSTON , a township in St. Mary-on-the-Hill parish, Cheshire; on the Ellesmere canal and the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire	Imperial
  MOSTON	Lancashire	MOSTON , a township, with a village, in Manchester. parish, Lancashire; on the Rochdale canal, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire	Imperial
  MOSTON	Cheshire	MOSTON , a township in Warmingham parish, Cheshire; on the Trent and Mersey canal, 2½ miles NW by W of Sandbach	Imperial

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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