Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Leighton

Leighton, township and vil., Worthen par., Montgomeryshire, on Offa's Dyke and river Severn, 2 miles SE. of Welshpool, 1866 ac., pop. 388; P.O.; in vicinity is the seat of Leighton Hall.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Montgomeryshire AncC
Place: Leighton

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