Presteigne
Presteigne is an ancient market town in the county of Powys in North Wales. Presteigne is considered by Country Life magazine editor Clive Aslet to be one of Britain's top 10 small towns.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 2,060 residents
- Description: town and community in Powys, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Llanandras”, “Presteigh”, and “Presteign”
- Postal code: LD8
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Andrew’s Church and Presteigne Library.
St Andrew’s Church
Church
Photo: Stephen Elwyn RODDICK, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church in Presteigne, Powys, Wales. It was first constructed in the 9th century by the Anglo-Saxons and retains elements of the original Anglo-Saxon church within a Norman renovation and later Victorian restoration.
John Beddoes School
School
John Beddoes School was a secondary or comprehensive school for boys and girls. The school was based on one site in the town of Presteigne. It had a largely rural catchment area in east Radnorshire including the towns and villages of Presteigne, Knighton, Beguildy, New Radnor, Knucklas, Gladestry, Whitton and Norton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Combe and Titley.
Combe
Hamlet
Combe is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire on the border with Wales. The village lies 4 km east of Presteigne near the confluence of the Hindwell Brook and the River Lugg.
Titley
Village
Photo: Phil Catterall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Titley is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It lies on the B4355 between Kington and Presteigne. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 167, increasing to 261 at the 2011 Census. Titley is situated 3 miles southeast of Presteigne.
Knill
Hamlet
Photo: Whatlep, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knill is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. Knill is situated 2½ miles southwest of Presteigne.
Presteigne
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.2724° or 52° 16′ 21″ northLongitude
-3.006° or 3° 0′ 22″ westPopulation
2,060Elevation
525 feet (160 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PSGOpen location code
9C4R7XCV+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29274677OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Presteigne” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Llanandras”
- Basque: “Presteigne”
- Breton: “Llanandras”
- Bulgarian: “Престийн”
- Catalan: “Llanandras”
- Cebuano: “Presteigne”
- Chinese: “普利斯提恩”
- Cornish: “Llanandras”
- Dutch: “Presteigne”
- French: “Presteigne”
- German: “Llanandras”
- Irish: “Llanandras”
- Italian: “Llanandras”
- Italian: “Presteigne”
- Latin: “Fanum Andreae”
- Persian: “پرستین”
- Polish: “Presteigne”
- Russian: “Престин”
- Scots: “Llanandras”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Llanandras”
- Spanish: “Presteigne”
- Swedish: “Presteigne”
- Welsh: “Llanandras”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Presteigne”. Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.