North West England
Lancashire
Preston District

Preston

Preston is a city in the county of in , with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a former textile and engineering town; it still makes aircraft, hosts the county local government, and has a university.
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  • Type: City with 114,000 residents
  • Description: city and the administrative center of Lancashire, England
  • Also known as: “Preston, Lancashire”
Photo: Baresi franco, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Deepdale and Preston Railway Station.

Stadium
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is a football in the area of Preston, England that is the home ground of Preston North End. Built in 1875 and in use since 1878, is recognised as being one of the oldest continuously used football stadiums in the world, although the club's claim that it is the oldest is contested.

Railway station
Photo: Miss Saff, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, in Preston, , England, is an interchange on the West Coast Main Line; it is approximately half-way between and Glasgow Central.

Museum
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The is a Grade I-listed building in Preston, Lancashire, England. Founded by Edmund Harris in 1877, it is a local history and fine art museum.

Preston

Latitude
53.7593° or 53° 45′ 34″ north
Longitude
-2.6993° or 2° 41′ 57″ west
Population
114,000
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
IATA airport code
XPT
United Nations Location Code
GB PRE
Open location code
9C5VQ852+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21436318
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2639912
Wiki­data ID
Q184090
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Preston” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Preston”
  • Arabic: “البرستون”
  • Arabic: “برستون”
  • Arabic: “برسطن”
  • Arabic: “بريستون”
  • Aragonese: “Preston”
  • Armenian: “Պրեստոն”
  • Asturian: “Preston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Preston”
  • Basque: “Preston”
  • Belarusian: “Прэстан”
  • Bengali: “প্রেসটন”
  • Bengali: “প্রেস্টন”
  • Breton: “Preston”
  • Bulgarian: “Престън”
  • Catalan: “Preston”
  • Cebuano: “Preston (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Lancashire)”
  • Cebuano: “Preston”
  • Chinese: “Preston”
  • Chinese: “培士頓”
  • Chinese: “普雷斯頓”
  • Chinese: “普雷斯顿”
  • Czech: “Preston”
  • Danish: “Preston”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Preston”
  • Dutch: “Preston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برستون”
  • Esperanto: “Preston”
  • Estonian: “Preston”
  • Finnish: “Preston”
  • French: “Preston”
  • Georgian: “პრესტონი”
  • German: “Preston”
  • Greek: “Πρέστον”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રેસ્ટન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Preston”
  • Hebrew: “פרסטון”
  • Hindi: “प्रेस्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Preston”
  • Icelandic: “Preston”
  • Indonesian: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Indonesian: “Preston”
  • Irish: “Preston”
  • Italian: “Preston”
  • Japanese: “プレストン”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರೆಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “프레스턴”
  • Kurdish: “Preston”
  • Ladin: “Preston”
  • Latvian: “Prestona”
  • Lithuanian: “Preston”
  • Lithuanian: “Prestonas”
  • Macedonian: “Престон”
  • Malay: “Preston”
  • Marathi: “प्रेस्टोन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Preston (Eng-lân)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Preston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “City of Preston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Preston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Preston i Lancashire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Preston”
  • Norwegian: “Preston”
  • Ossetian: “Престон”
  • Persian: “پرستون (لانکاشیر)”
  • Persian: “پرستون”
  • Polish: “Preston”
  • Portuguese: “Preston”
  • Quechua: “Preston”
  • Romanian: “Preston”
  • Russian: “Престон”
  • Scots: “Preston”
  • Serbian: “Preston”
  • Serbian: “Престон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Silesian: “Preston”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රෙස්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Preston”
  • Slovenian: “Preston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرستون”
  • Spanish: “Preston”
  • Swahili: “Preston”
  • Swedish: “Preston”
  • Tagalog: “Preston”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஸ்டோன்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரெஸ்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Престон”
  • Telugu: “ప్రెస్టన్”
  • Thai: “เพรสตัน”
  • Turkish: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Turkish: “Preston”
  • Ukrainian: “Престон”
  • Urdu: “پریسٹن، لنکاشائر”
  • Urdu: “پریسٹن”
  • Venetian: “Preston”
  • Vietnamese: “Preston”
  • Volapük: “Preston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Preston”
  • Welsh: “Preston”
  • Wu Chinese: “普雷斯顿”
  • Yue Chinese: “培士頓”

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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 “Preston”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.