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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Soughton like this:
SOUGHTON, a township in Northop parish, Flint; on Wat's dyke, 4¼ miles WNW of Hawarden. Real property, £5,060; of which £200 are in mines. Pop., 557. Houses, 111. S. Hall was built in 1714 by Bishop Wynne, and passed to the Bankeses.
Soughton is now part of FLINTSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how FLINTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Soughton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Soughton in Flintshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23139
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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