Prescot
Prescot is a town and civil parish within the Town of St Helens in Merseyside, England. It lies about 8 miles to the east of Liverpool city centre. At the 2001 Census, the civil parish population was 11,184.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 40,900 residents
- Description: town in Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England
- Also known as: “Prescot, Merseyside”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prescot Museum and Prescot Parish Church.
Prescot Museum
Museum
Prescot Museum is a local museum in Prescot, England. The museum focuses on topics relating to the history of Knowsley, its people and local industries such as coalmining and watchmaking.
Prescot Parish Church
Church
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Prescot Parish Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is in the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church.
Shakespeare North
Theater building
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The Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside, in the north of England is a cultural and educational venue that opened in 2022. The development includes a 420-seat main auditorium, a modern studio space, outdoor performance garden, exhibition and visitor centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whiston and Huyton.
Whiston
Town
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Whiston is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It is located 8 miles east of Liverpool. The population was 13,629 in 2001, increasing to 14,263 in 2011.
Huyton
Town
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Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. Part of the Liverpool Built-up Area, it borders the Liverpool suburbs of Dovecot, Knotty Ash and Netherley. Huyton is situated 2 miles southwest of Prescot.
Rainhill
Suburb
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Rainhill is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2011 census was 10,853. Historically part of Lancashire, Rainhill was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Prescot and hundred of West Derby. Rainhill is situated 2 miles southeast of Prescot.
Prescot
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Prescot, Knowsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.42758° or 53° 25′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.80425° or 2° 48′ 15″ westPopulation
40,900Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PCTOpen location code
9C5VC5HW+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 30578546OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Prescot” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريسكوت”
- Asturian: “Prescot”
- Basque: “Prescot”
- Bengali: “প্রেস্কোট”
- Cebuano: “Prescot”
- Chinese: “普莱斯格特”
- Chinese: “普萊斯格特”
- Dutch: “Prescot”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريسكوت”
- Estonian: “Prescot”
- French: “Prescot”
- German: “Prescot”
- Gujarati: “પ્રેસ્કોટ”
- Hebrew: “פרסקוט”
- Irish: “Prescot”
- Italian: “Prescot”
- Japanese: “プレスコット (マージーサイド)”
- Japanese: “プレスコット”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ರೆಸ್ಕಾಟ್”
- Korean: “프레스콧”
- Ladin: “Prescot”
- Lithuanian: “Preskotas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prescot”
- Persian: “پرسکوت”
- Polish: “Prescot”
- Portuguese: “Prescot”
- Romanian: “Prescot”
- Russian: “Прескот”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prescot”
- South Azerbaijani: “پرسکوت”
- Spanish: “Prescot”
- Swedish: “Prescot”
- Tamil: “பிரெஸ்காட்”
- Telugu: “ప్రెస్కాట్”
- Turkish: “Prescot”
- Urdu: “پریسکوت”
- Volapük: “Prescot”
- Welsh: “Prescot”
- “Prescot”
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