Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Syston

Syston.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta. (Syston Junction), in co. and 5 miles NE. of Leicester, 1380 ac., pop. 2470; P.O., T.O.; has framework knitting and malting.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Syston CP/AP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Syston

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