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Garston is a village in Hertfordshire, England, more or less contiguous with Watford and now, despite retaining a local identity, is effectively a suburb. It is within the Stanborough, Woodside and Meriden wards of Watford borough, although a small number of its streets are within Hertsmere borough.
- also known as Garston, Hertfordshire
- part of United Kingdom
Garston a.k.a. Garston (Hertfordshire) railway station: Garston railway station serves the Garston area of Watford in Hertfordshire, England. It is the second station on the Abbey Line from Watford Junction. The station and all trains serving it are operated by London Midland.
- part of United Kingdom

There are other places with in their name, like East Garston.

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Sailing Directions for the West Coast of England, from the Scilly Islands to the Mull of Galloway, Including the Isle of Man (1891)

by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department

Off Dingle point, at the south extreme of the Liverpool docks, the channel to Garston is a quarter of a mile wide with a depth of 8 fathoms in mid-channel; this is reduced off Garston docks to a width of 150 yards, with a depth of 20 feet at ...

Little Book of Liverpool (2011)

by Alex Tulloch

Garston is an ancient settlement and certainly older than Liverpool itself. It is known to have been an outlying farm belonging to the ancient Saxon manor of West Derby and in medieval times there was a community of Benedictine monks there.

A Companion to Under the Volcano (2011)

by Lawrence J. Clipper, Christopher Ackerley

Garston is a dockside suburb of Liverpool, hence much closer than London to the small east Lancashire town of Oswaldtwistle. Lowry's early novel Ultramarine opens with such a process of “signing on” at a similar Liverpool office. 161.3 [157] ...

Sailing Directions for the West Coast of England (1884)

by Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept

Garston is a creek of Liverpool. The population in 1881 was 10,131. WIDNES is a little ...

History of Hertfordshire: History of the hundreds of Dacorum and Cashio (1879)

by John Edwin Cussans

GARSTON is an estate on the St. Albans road, about three miles north of Watford. Regist, Abbat. It was granted on the 8th September, 1455, by William Halle, of Schildyngtone, Co, £ Bedford (now called Shillington), to John of Wheathamstead, ...

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (2016)

by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure

English: see Garston. 3 English: occupational name, possibly in some instances from Middle English, Old French garcon, garchon 'boy, page, valet'. Early bearers: Reginald Garcon, in Pipe Rolls (Yorks); Hugh le Garchun, in ...

A Dictionary of British Place-Names (2011)

by David Mills

Point Garry Garryduff Garryhill Garrynafela Garryowen Garryspillane Garsdale Garsdon Garshall Green Garsington Garstang Garston Garston, East Garswood Gartan Garthorpe Garthorpe Garton Garvagh Garvaghey Garvaghy Garvellachs ...

A Geographical Dictionary of England and Wales (1832)

Containing the Names, in Alphabetical Order, of All the Counties, with Their Several Subdivisions Into Hundreds, Lathes, Rapes, Wapentakes, Wards, Or Divisions; and an Account of the Distribution of the Counties Into Circuits, Dioceses, and Parliamentary Divisions. Also, the Names (under that of Each County Respectively) in Alphabetical Order, of All the Cities, Boroughs, Market Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and Tithings, with the Distance of Each from London, Or from the Nearest Market Town, and with the Population, and Other Interesting Particulars Relative to Each; Besides which There are Maps; First, One of the Whole Country, Showing the Local Situation of the Counties Relatively to Each Other; And, Then, Each County is Also Preceded by a Map, Showing, in the Same Manner, the Local Situations of Cities, Boroughs and Market Towns. Four Tables are Added; First, a Statistical Table of All the Counties, and Then Three Tables, Showing the New Divisions and Distributions Enacted by the Reform-Law of 4 June, 1832 by William Cobbett

Oxon Garston (East), Berks Garston, Lancashire Garton, York Garton-upon-the- Wolds, York Garth, Montgomery Garth, Glamorgan Garth, Cardigan Garth, Glamorgan Garth-Brengy, Brecon Garth-Gynyd, Glamorgan Garthbeibio, Montgomery ...