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Garston is a district of Liverpool , Merseyside . It is bordered by Grassendale , Allerton , Hunts Cross and Speke . HISTORY 'Gaerstun', meaning grazing settlement, is one possible root of the name. In Medieval times, Garston was home to a group of Benedictine Monk s. The first recorded mention of settlement in Garston is of the church of St. Michael in 1235 . By the 19th Century , the area had become a small village, one of the eight townships forming the Parish of Childwall . A small dock was first built at Garston in 1793 for Blackburne’s saltworks, which is still there today. Garston's growth accelerated rapidly in the 1840s , when in 1846, the area's first Dock was constructed and opened, under the auspices of the St Helen's And Runcorn Gap Railway Company . The "Old Dock" was followed twenty years later by a second, the "New Dock" . In 1902 , Garston was incorporated into the City of Liverpool. DESCRIPTION Today, Garston is a major shipping and container port, second only to Seaforth docks in the North-West . Much of the area is also residential, housing being mainly in Victorian terraces with some semi-detached homes around Liverpool South Parkway. It is partnered with the nearby district of Speke in a series of redevelopment and regeneration schemes, which have succeeded in reversing recent trends in dereliction and unemployment. Garston is regularly quoted as one of Liverpool's 'up and coming' areas because of this, and house prices have continued to rise. TRANSPORT
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