It is an urban settlement and unparished area that when combined with surrounding rural civil parishes forms the City of Preston local government district of Lancashire.

The settlement, or unparished area, of Preston has a population of 114, 300, and the whole City of Preston district has a population of 132, 000.

Preston and its surroundings have provided evidence of ancient Roman activity in the area, largely in the form of a Roman road which led to a camp at Walton-le-Dale.

The town was named after George Washington, who traveled through the area several times during the American Revolution, and proverbially slept in New Preston in 1781.

The primary road through the area is Kentucky Route 61 ( Preston Highway ).

The Bell family is still in the area and consists of Theodore and Judy Bell, Marvin and Jean Bell, Kimberly Preston ( Bell ), Mitch Bell, Nathan Bell, Ashlen Bell among others.

Gordon Brothers Cellars, Fidelitas Winery, Kamiak Vineyards, and Preston Premium Wines are just a few of the local Pasco area wineries that contribute to this industry.

The rural area surrounding Blair is in the Town of Preston.

In 1829, Dr Alexander Collie and Lieutenant Preston explored the area of Bunbury on land.

Chiarelli was raised in the Little Italy area of Ottawa near Preston Street.

** The PR postcode area, also known as the Preston postcode area

Between that time and Willard Richards being called back to Preston on 7 March 1838 about 40 people were baptised members of the LDS Church in the Bedford area.

* PR postcode area, for Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom

His legacy includes the George Preston Marshall Foundation which serves the interests of children in the Washington, DC area.

There is a White Hart Pub in the Fulwood area of Preston.

The name can be used only for cheese from milk from an area north of the River Ribble including the Fylde, Preston, and Blackpool and made in the same area by a designated method.

Preston, in the Halifax area, is the community with the highest percentage of blacks, with 69. 4 %.

At the first Darebin Council Election no faction held control, with four Councillors from the Preston area being members of the Labor Unity ( Right ) faction, four Councillors from the Northcote area being members of the Socialist Left, and one Councillor from the Preston area being a member of the Pledge faction, a breakaway group from the Socialist Left frequently voting with the Right.

Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.

So long as Ambrose continued at Preston he was favoured with the warm friendship of the Hoghton family, their ancestral woods and the tower near Blackburn affording him sequestered places for those devout meditations and " experiences " that give such a charm to his diary, portions of which are quoted in his Prima Media and Ultima ( 1650, 1659 ).

Preston Tucker was born on September 21, 1903, on a peppermint farm near Capac, Michigan.

Boyle was born at Canterbury 3 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle ( d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent ), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan ( born 15 October 1529 at Canterbury-died 20 March 1586 ), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564.

The highest elevation in the county, 2, 656 feet ( 809. 5 m ), is the summit of Mount Ararat in Preston Township, near Orson.

* Camp Aspen Ridge is located near Preston, Idaho.

* Operates Camp Preston Hunt near Texarkana, Arkansas, a Cub Scout and Webelos Resident Camp, and year-round camping facility.

On August 4, 1954, an Air France Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation flying from Orly Airport to Idlewild Airport crashed near Preston.

Taylor ’ s bridge served the new tide of westward migration and travel in the region that followed the military suppression of Shoshone resistance at the Bear River Massacre near Preston, Idaho in 1863.

Preston Tucker, designer of the 1948 Tucker Sedan, was born near Capac in 1903.

The land occupied by Addison was settled as early as 1846 when Preston Witt built a house near White Rock Creek.

Edward Baines was born in 1774 at Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire.

Of the canal north of Preston, only the section from Preston to Tewitfield near Carnforth in Lancashire is currently open to navigation for, with the canal north of Tewitfield having been severed in three places by the construction of the M6 motorway, and by the A590 road near Kendal.

Travelling south from Kingswood Junction, the first aqueduct is the modest Yarningale Aqueduct which carries the canal over a small stream near Preston Bagot, Warwickshire.

From the junction with the Bridgewater Canal, the T & M travels south through Preston Brook Tunnel ( one-way operation, alternating each half hour ) and two smaller tunnels at Saltersford ( since 2008 also one-way operation, alternating each half hour ), and Barnton to the " junction " with the River Weaver at Anderton Boat Lift near Northwich.

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Preston, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction ( J45 ).

The site was renamed Windscale to avoid confusion with the Springfields uranium processing factory near Preston.

Other contenders for the title of last English battle include: the Battle of Preston in Lancashire, which was fought on 14 November 1715, during the First Jacobite Rebellion ; and the Second Jacobite Rebellion's minor engagement at Clifton Moor, near Penrith in Cumbria, on 18 December 1745.

He later moved to another pub, the Rose and Crown at Much Hoole, near Preston.

* Preston, Cotswold, Gloucestershire ( near Cirencester )

Preston is a town in Caroline County, Maryland, United States.

Among them were, for example, Confederate general John Bell Hood, politician John L. Manning, general and politician John S. Preston and his wife Caroline, general and politician Wade Hampton III, politician Clement C. Clay and his wife Virginia, and general and politician Louis T. Wigfall and his wife Charlotte ( also known as Louise ).

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

* Clifton Mills, West Virginia, unincorporated community in Preston County

* Preston County ( northeast )

In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.

* David Thompson ( footballer born 1962 ), former English football player with Rochdale, Notts County, Wigan, Preston and Chester

* Preston County ( east )

Preston County is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

It was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James Patton Preston.

* Preston County ( east )

* Preston County ( northwest )

Monument off U. S. Highway 83 to George Preston Humphreys ( 1899-1979 ), the manager of the 6666 Ranch, who also served as King County sheriff from 1928-1948

* Preston County, West Virginia ( south )

* John Preston Arthur, A History of Watauga County, North Carolina: With Sketches of Prominent Families.

The County contains whole, or parts of, several previous Spanish land grants to include the Aqua Negra, the Jose Perea, the Anton Chico, and the Preston Beck land grants.

The daughter of Ron Atkins, the former left wing Labour MP for Preston North, Atkins was educated at the Colchester County High School, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics, gaining a BSc in Economics.

The former Lancaster home of William Preston Hall, now the Schuyler County Historical Society museum.

* Consolidated Government of Webster County Including the City of Preston, Weston, and Webster County

* Webster County Board of Education a School system serving the City of Preston and Weston

Brooks County was created 11 December 1858 from portions of Lowndes and Thomas counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly named in honor of Preston Brooks, famous and acclaimed throughout the South for having beaten to unconsciousness, Senator Charles Sumner in 1856 in Congress.

Brooks County was formed from parts of Lowndes and Thomas counties and was named for Preston Brooks, a member of Congress prior to the Civil War and an avid offender for / defender of state rights.

: For the town of Preston in New London County, Connecticut, see Preston, Connecticut.