Preston Lake

Preston Lake is a community located in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville in the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada. The community is centred on Preston Lake, a natural glacier kettle lake, immediately north-east of the intersection of Bloomington Road and Woodbine Avenue, east of Highway 404, near Aurora.

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Locality
Description: dispersed rural community in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario
Also known as: “Preston Lake, Ontario”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Preston Lake and Bloomington GO Station.

Preston Lake

Lake

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bloomington GO Station

Railway station

Photo: Félix An, CC BY 4.0.

Bloomington GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network, located in the extreme northeast corner of Richmond Hill, Ontario. The station primarily serves the community of Oak Ridges and the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville.

Haynes Lake

Lake

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Haynes Lake is situated 3½ km southwest of Preston Lake.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gormley and Aurora.

Gormley

Hamlet

Gormley is a hamlet in York Region, Ontario, Canada that overlaps parts of Richmond Hill, and Whitchurch–Stouffville, two municipalities within the Greater Toronto Area. Gormley is situated 4½ km south of Preston Lake.

Aurora

Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Aurora is a town of about 62,000 people in York Region, in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario. Aurora is noted for preserving its historical built form in the older parts of town, and for being a part of the Greenbelt, an area surrounding Toronto that is protected from development.

Ringwood

Neighborhood

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ringwood is a hamlet in York Region, Ontario, Canada, in the Town of Whitchurch–Stouffville. The hamlet is centred at the intersection of Stouffville Road and Highway 48, on the Little Rouge River, a tributary of the Rouge River on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Ringwood is situated 8 km east of Preston Lake.

Preston Lake

Category: human settlement
Location: Whitchurch-Stouffville, York Region, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

43.98076° or 43° 58′ 51″ north

Longitude

-79.38016° or 79° 22′ 49″ west

Elevation

322 metres (1,056 feet)

Open location code

87M2XJJ9+8W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 558715717

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

GeoNames ID

6113156

Wikidata ID

Q7241927

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Satellite Map

Discover Preston Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Dutch to French—“Preston Lake” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Preston Lake”
French: “Preston Lake”

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