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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  HESTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	HESTON AND ISLEWORTH UD/MB (Local Government District)

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find units with names similar to your search term:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "HESTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BRADFORD	Yorkshire	Heston, and Thornton, also are separate benefices. The two subdistricts are Bradford-East-End and Bradford-West-End; and the former	Imperial
  BRENTFORD	Middlesex	Heston; and the subdistrict of Acton, containing the parishes of Acton, Hanwell, Perivale, and Great Greenford. Acres, 20,405. Poor	Imperial
  CRANFORD	Middlesex	Heston parish, Middlesex; on the left bank of the river Crane, adjacent to the Grand Junction canal, 1¾ mile	Imperial
  Heston	Middlesex	Heston , par. and vil., Middlesex, 2 miles NW. of Hounslow and 11 miles SW. of London, 3823 ac., pop. 9754; P.O.; here	Bartholomew
  HESTON	Middlesex	HESTON , a village and a parish in Brentford district, Middlesex. The village stands near the Grand Junction canal, 1½ mile	Imperial
  Hounslow	Middlesex	Heston and Isleworth pars., Middlesex, 2½ miles SW. of Brentford and 9 miles SW. of Hyde Park Corner, London	Bartholomew
  HOUNSLOW	Middlesex	Heston and Islesworth; stands on the edge of the quondam heath, on a loop line of the Southwestern railway, about	Imperial
  Hyde, North	Middlesex	Hyde, North , hamlet, Heston par., Middlesex, 3 miles NW. of Brentford.	Bartholomew
  HYDE (NORTH)	Middlesex	Heston parish, Middlesex; on the Grand Junction canal, 3 miles WNW of Brentford. It has extensive brickfields, and a Roman	Imperial
  ISLEWORTH	Middlesex	Heston parish, and is in Brentford district. Acres, 6, 848. Pop., 15, 533. Houses, 2, 874. --The hundred contains likewise	Imperial
  Lampton	Middlesex	Lampton , vil., Heston par., Middlesex, in SW. of co., 1½ mile NE. of Hounslow; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LAMPTON	Middlesex	Heston parish, Middlesex; 1½ mile N by E of Hounslow r. station. It has a post-office under Hounslow	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Heston, Isleworth, and Northolt; the p. curacies of Turnham-green, St. Mary Magdalene-Chiswick, ChristchurchEaling, Spring-grove, Hounslow, St. John	Imperial
  MIDDLESEX	Middlesex	Heston, Kempton, Littleton, Paradise House, Shepperton, Stanmore Hall, Stanmore Grove, Swakeleys, Teddington House, Trent Park, Twickenham Park, Twyford, Arnos Grove	Imperial
  Scrattage	Middlesex	Scrattage , vil., Heston par., Middlesex, 2 miles W. of Brentford.	Bartholomew
  SCRATTAGE	Middlesex	SCRATTAGE , a village in Heston parish, Middlesex; 2 miles W of Brentford.	Imperial
  Spring Grove	Middlesex	Spring Grove and Isleworth), Heston and Isleworth pars., Middlesex, pop. 1740; the sta. is 1½ mile SW. of Brentford.	Bartholomew
  SPRING-GROVE	Middlesex	Heston and Isleworth parishes, Middlesex; at Isleworth and Spring-Grove r. station, between Brentford and Hounslow. It was constituted in 1856; and its Post	Imperial
  Sutton	Middlesex	Heston par., Middlesex, 1½ mile N. of Hounslow; Sutton Court was the seat of the Countess Falconberg, third daughter	Bartholomew
  SUTTON	Middlesex	Heston parish, Middlesex; adjacent to H. village, 1½ mile N of Hounslow. S. Court was the seat of Countess	Imperial

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