Garstang, Lancashire

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Garstang is a town in Lancashire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Garstang within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Garstang in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Garstang, market town, par., and township (ry. sta. Garstang and Catterall), N. Lancashire, on river Wyre, 10½ miles S. of Lancaster -- par., 29,422 ac. and 4439 foreshore, pop. 6645; township, 503 ac., pop. 783; town, pop. 2769; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Thursday. The neighbourhood contains several very large cotton factories.

Garstang in the Domesday Book

A village in Amounderness hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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