Darliston

Parish

Darliston is a country town in the southwest of Jamaica. The town is located in County Cornwall in the Parish Westmoreland. In 2010 Darliston had a population of 1582 people

Geography

Darliston is on a 420 meters high on average Plato in Cornwall Mountains. The area, which is located around the place alternates between cultivated land and forest and lies for the most part at a constant height. The Plato is surrounded by higher elevations, which are up to 650 meters above sea level.

The town lies about 16 kilometers northeast of Savanna- la -Mar, the capital of Westmoreland Parish. The next settlements are the small villages of Chilton and Enfield located about 3 km south. At the same distance, but located to the west, lies the village of Clifton.

Transport and the economy

The majority of the inhabitants of Darliston lives of the cattle and the cultivation of the breadfruit tree.

In 2005, the Jamaican Government opened for $ 6.6 million a transportation center that the National Urban / Rural Renewal program and was the Westmoreland Parish Council funded.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Selvin Uriah Hastings, first Jamaican bishop of the Moravian Church.