Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FORTON

FORTON, a township in Garstang parish, Lancashire; on the Preston canal and the Preston and Lancaster railway, 4 miles N of Garstang. Acres, 1, 278. Real property, £2, 663; of which £55 are in quarries. Pop., 574. Houses, 131. There is an Independent chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Forton CP/Tn       Garstang CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Forton

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