Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PRESTON (Long)

PRESTON (Long), a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Settle district, W. R. Yorkshire. The .village stands on the river Ribble, and on the Leeds and Lancaster railway, 4 miles S by E of Settle; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under Leeds, and fairson 1 March, 28 Feb., and 4 Sept. The township comprises 3, 533 acres. Real property, £5, 364. Pop., 536. Houses, 156. The parish contains also the townships of Wigglesworth, Hellifield, and West Halton, and comprises 13, 212 acres. Real property, £14, 338. Pop. in 1851, 1, 341; in 1861, 1, 206. Houses, 293. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. Hellifield Peel is the seat of J. Hammer-ton, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £302.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is old; was recently repaired; and consists of nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with porch and low tower. There are-chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, six church schools, a mechanics' institute, ten alms-houses, and aggregate charities £206.—The sub-district contains also Tosside parish, and two townships of Gisburn. Acres, 14, 823. Pop., 1, 358. Houses, 319.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Long Preston AP/CP       Long Preston SubD       Settle RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: LONG PRESTON     |     PRESTON     |     PRESTON LONG
Place: Long Preston

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