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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 "GILSTON":
Place name County Entry Source Fala and Soutra East Lothian
MidlothianGilston; but the chief antiquity, an ancient hospice, is separately noticed under Soutra. A mansion is Woodcot, 1¾ mile Groome Gelston or Gilston Kirkcudbrightshire Gilston, a village in Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2½ miles SSE of Castle-Douglas, under which it has a post Groome Gilston Hertfordshire Gilston , par., E. Herts, 3½ miles SW. of Sawbridgeworth, 985 ac., pop. 272; contains the seat of Gilston Park Bartholomew GILSTON Hertfordshire GILSTON , a parish in Ware district, Herts; on an affluent of the river Stort, near the boundary with Essex, 2 miles Imperial Gilstone Rock Cornwall Gilstone Rock , near islets of Roseviar and Roseveann, Scilly Islands, W. Cornwall; was the scene of Sir Cloudesley Shovel's shipwreck Bartholomew Gilston House Fife Gilston House , seat, 3½ miles NE. of Largo, Fife. Bartholomew Gilston Lodge Midlothian Gilston Lodge , seat, Dalkeith, Edinburghshire. Bartholomew Gilston, New (Backmuir of) Fife Gilston, New (Backmuir of) , vil., Largo par., Fifeshire, 2½ miles SE. of Ceres. See BACKMUIR. Bartholomew HERTFORDSHIRE, or Herts Hertfordshire Gilston Park, Hadham Park, Hamels Park, Heaton Park, Hexton House, High Canons, Hormeadbury, Julians, King's Walden, Knebworth House, Lamer Imperial Kiel Fife Gilston Burns, in the NE of the parish, and running 3 ¼ miles southward to Largo Bay at Lower Largo Groome Largo Fife Gilston Burn enters from the E. Above the junction with Gilston Burn the Kiel is generally known as Boghall Burn Groome Largoward Fife Gilston public schools, with respective accommodation for 165 and 90 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 103 and 69, and grants Groome Newburn Fife Gilston House, 3½ miles NNE of Largo, and Lahill, 1¼ mile ENE, are the seats of John Henry Groome
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