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WESTON, a parish, with a village and three hamlets, in Hitchin district, Herts; 3 miles SSE of Baldock r. station. It has a post-office under Stevenage, and a fair on 11 June. Acres, 4,530. Real property, £6,240. Pop., 1,196. Houses, 234. W. Park is the seat of M. Pryor, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £216.* Patron,C. Hale, Esq-The church is ancient. There are Wesleyan and Catholic Apostolic chapels, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village and three hamlets" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Weston Parish Hitchin Poor Law Union/Registration District Hertfordshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Weston |
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