GARSTON, a chapelry in the parish of CHILDWALL, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER, 6 miles (S. E.) from Liverpool, containing 874 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £730 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant. Richard Watt, Esq. was patron in 1811. There are extensive works at this place for refining salt, which afford employment to about one hundred persons: the material from which the salt is made is brought from Northwich, in Cheshire.