Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Alston

Alston.-- par. and market town, E. Cumberland, 36 miles ESE. of Carlisle by rail, 36,968 ac. (248 water), pop. 4621; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Market-day, Saturday. It has cotton and thread mfrs. and trade in minerals.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and market town"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Alston With Garrigill AP/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Alston

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