Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOUGHTON

SOUGHTON, a township in Northop parish, Flint; on Wat's dyke, 4¼ miles WNW of Hawarden. Real property, £5,060; of which £200 are in mines. Pop., 557. Houses, 111. S. Hall was built in 1714 by Bishop Wynne, and passed to the Bankeses.


(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: Northop CP/AP       Soughton Tn       Flintshire AncC
Place: Soughton

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