Garston, Lancashire

Description
Garston, a small seaport town, a township, and a parish in Lancashire. The town stands on the Mersey, and on th& Liverpool, Warrington, and Manchester railway, 6 miles SE of Liverpool, was noted for salt-works, is now a sub-port to Liverpool, with new docks, and has stations on the Cheshire Lines, the G.N., M.S. & L., and L. & N.W. railways, and two post, money order, and telegraph offices under Liverpool, called Garston (T.S.O.), and Garston Docks. The township includes also Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool. Area, 1625 acres of land and 898 of water and foreshore; population, 13,444. A considerable number of the inhabitants are employed at the docks belonging to the L. & N.W.R., and if these are extended to cover 15 acres, as originally planned, from their favourable situation will probably become of great importance. The imports are various, as mineral ores,. timber of all kinds, nitrate of soda, &c.; the chief exports are coal and salt. There are copper and iron works, and also large works in connection with the Liverpool Gaslight Company. Extensive bobbin works were erected in 1894. The chief buildings, besides the places of worship, are the reading and lecture rooms, the Jubilee Church Institute, two hospitals, a county police station, a new post office, and two hotels. The town is governed by a local board. The living-is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £350 with residence. There was a church at Garston in 1235. In 1650 it was in ruins; it was rebuilt in 1716. The church, again rebuilt in 1876. is very good. There are also Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, Congregational, Baptist, and Presbyterian chapels.