Prescot
Sign in to savePrescot is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It lies about to the east of Liverpool city centre. At the 2001 Census, the civil parish population was 11,184 (5,265 males, 5,919 females). The population of the larger Prescot East and West wards at the 2011 census totalled 14,139. Prescot marks the beginning of the A58 road which runs through to Wetherby, near Leeds in West Yorkshire. The town is served by Prescot railway station and Eccleston Park railway station in neighbouring Eccleston.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.type
- Town
- UK place.official_name
- Prescot
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary's Church, Prescot.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary's Church, Prescot
- UK place.population
- 11,184
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001 Census)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Knowsley
- UK place.civil_parish
- Prescot
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- Merseyside
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Knowsley
- UK place.constituency_westminster1
- St Helens South and Whiston
- UK place.post_town
- PRESCOT
- UK place.postcode_district
- L34/L35
- UK place.postcode_area
- L
- UK place.dial_code
- 0151
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ4692
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Prescot is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It lies about to the east of Liverpool city centre. At the 2001 Census, the civil parish population was 11,184 (5,265 males, 5,919 females). The population of the larger Prescot East and West wards at the 2011 census totalled 14,139. Prescot marks the beginning of the A58 road which runs through to Wetherby, near Leeds in West Yorkshire. The town is served by Prescot railway station and Eccleston Park railway station in neighbouring Eccleston.
==History== Prescot's name is believed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon prēost "priest" + cot "cot", meaning a cottage or small house owned or inhabited by a priest, a "priest-cottage". (ME prest, preste, priest, OE prēost, LL presbyter, Gk πρεσβύτερος presbýteros "elder, priest")