Parish of Walston
including the villages of Walston and Elsrickle.
WALSTON, parish immediately northwest of Dolphinton, and averagely 5 miles north-north-east of Biggar, Lanarkshire. Its post town is Biggar ; and it contains the small villages of Walston and Elsrickle, measures 3½ miles by 3, and comprises 4361 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £3518. hill. Pop. 340. The surface ranges from 660 to 1600 feet of elevation above sea-level, and is variously vale, slope, and hill. The churches are Established and Free, and the public school has about 47 scholars. The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882.
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