Great and Little Preston
Great and Little Preston is a civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 census it had a population of 1,449, and 1,463 in the 2011 census. It sits within the Leeds City Council ward of Garforth and Swillington.Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Aidan’s and Woodlesford railway station.
St Aidan’s
Nature reserve
Photo: Richard Avery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Aidan's is a 355-hectare nature park located between Leeds and Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. The land was formerly an opencast coal mining area that was flooded in 1988, after the riverbank collapsed.
Woodlesford railway station
Railway station
Woodlesford railway station serves the suburban village of Woodlesford and the town of Rothwell in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Hallam Line and the Pontefract Line, 6 miles south of Leeds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Leeds and Castleford.
East Leeds
Photo: Neil T, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Leeds is the area of the city of Leeds between the river Aire, Easterley and Wetherby Roads, Leeds City Centre and the villages of Elmet and the Aire valley.
Castleford
Town
Photo: Mtaylor848, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centre the River Calder joins the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation. Castleford is situated 3 miles southeast of Great and Little Preston.
Woodlesford
Village
Woodlesford is a suburban village in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, 6 miles south-east of Leeds city centre. Formerly part of the Rothwell Urban District, it is now within the Rothwell ward of Leeds City Council.
Great and Little Preston
- Type: Locality with 2,040 residents
- Description: civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Great and Little Preston” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great and Little Preston”
- Chinese: “Great and Little Preston”
- Dutch: “Great and Little Preston”
- French: “Great and Little Preston”
- Irish: “Great agus Little Preston”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Great and Little Preston”
- Polish: “Great and Little Preston”
- Swedish: “Great and Little Preston”
- Turkish: “Great and Little Preston”
- “Great and Little Preston”
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