Prees
Prees is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Its name is Celtic and means "brushwood".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 939 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Precs”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Chad and Prees railway station.
Prees railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mike Farmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prees railway station serves the village of Prees in Shropshire, England, although the station is a mile to the west of the village and in the parish of Wem Rural.
Soulton Long Barrow
Cemetery
Photo: TJatHAURC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Soulton Long Barrow and Ritual Landscape is a modern memorial in the form of a long barrow in the Soulton landscape near Wem in Shropshire, England. Soulton Long Barrow is situated 1½ miles south of Prees.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prees Higher Heath and Quina Brook.
Prees Higher Heath
Village
Photo: Peter Fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prees Higher Heath is a large village located within the civil parish of Prees in north Shropshire, England. Prees Higher Heath is situated 1½ miles north of Prees.
Quina Brook
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Farmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quina Brook is a hamlet in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Population details for the 2011 census are found under Wem Rural. Quina Brook is situated 2 miles west of Prees.
Fauls Green
Village
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fauls Green is a hamlet situated 3 miles from Prees in rural north Shropshire, England. The placename is commonly abbreviated to Fauls. The Fauls Holy Emmanuel church is located within the hamlet. Fauls Green is situated 2½ miles east of Prees.
Prees
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Prees, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.89703° or 52° 53′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.666° or 2° 39′ 58″ westPopulation
939Elevation
328 feet (100 metres)Open location code
9C4VV8WM+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 282849243OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2639935Wikidata ID
Q578185
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Prees” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Prees”
- Cebuano: “Prees”
- Chinese: “普里斯”
- Dutch: “Prees, Shropshire”
- French: “Prees”
- Hungarian: “Prees”
- Irish: “Prees”
- Italian: “Prees”
- Japanese: “プリーズ”
- Ladin: “Prees”
- Latin: “Pratis”
- Persian: “پریز، شروپشر”
- Polish: “Prees”
- Spanish: “Prees”
- Swedish: “Prees”
- Turkish: “Prees”
- Urdu: “پریز، شاپ شائر”
- Welsh: “Prees, Swydd Amwythig”
- Welsh: “Prees”
- “Prees”
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Highlights include Prees Methodist and United Reformed Church and Prees Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Prees”. Photo: Mike Farmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.