Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MOSTON

MOSTON, a township in St. Mary-on-the-Hill parish, Cheshire; on the Ellesmere canal and the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction railway, 3 miles NNW of Chester. Acres, 273. Real property, £394. Pop., 15. Houses, 2. Moston Hall is the seat of Mrs. Massey.


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

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cheshire AncC
Place: Moston

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