Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Marston

Marston, township and vil., Great Budworth par., Cheshire, on Trent and Mersey Canal, 2 miles NE. of Northwich, 1113 ac., pop. 969; P.O., T.O.; has extensive salt mines and salt works; one salt mine, the most noticeable, was visited by the Emperor Nicholas of Russia in 1844.


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

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Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Cheshire AncC
Place: Marston

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