Preston
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Preston or Preston-next-Wingham is a civil parish and village in the valley of the Little Stour in the Dover District of Kent, England. The village is on the B2076 secondary road. The parish includes the hamlet of Elmstone. The main river through the area is a tributary of the River Stour. The suffix 'next-Wingham' distinguishes the area from Preston-next-Faversham.
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Preston
- UK place.static_image
- St Mildred Preston 2.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mildred's Church, Preston
- UK place.civil_parish
- Preston
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population
- 674
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.shire_district
- Dover
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Herne Bay and Sandwich
- UK place.post_town
- CANTERBURY
- UK place.postcode_district
- CT3
- UK place.postcode_area
- CT
- UK place.dial_code
- 01227
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TR249610
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Preston or Preston-next-Wingham is a civil parish and village in the valley of the Little Stour in the Dover District of Kent, England. The village is on the B2076 secondary road. The parish includes the hamlet of Elmstone. The main river through the area is a tributary of the River Stour. The suffix 'next-Wingham' distinguishes the area from Preston-next-Faversham.
The Domesday Book of 1086 chronicled Preston as 'Prestetune'. In the 1870s, Preston-next-Wingham was described as:"A village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent. The village stands on a rising-ground, above the marshes of the Little Stour river, 1½mile S E of Grove-Ferry r. station, and 6¾ E N E of Canterbury; bears the name of Preston-street, and has a postal pillar-box under Wingham".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Preston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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