The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Preesall, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Preesall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Preesall.

Listed Buildings Near Preesall

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Preesall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Parrox Hall - 0.68 km

Grade II

6, Mill Street - 0.24 km
Preesall Mill - 0.81 km
Preesall and Knott End War Memorial - 0.95 km
Church of St Oswald - 1.08 km

Preesall Today

Today Preesall lies within the administrative area of Wyre, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,656 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Preesall on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Stalmine - 2.2 km SE
Burn Hall - 3.6 km SW
Hambleton - 5.1 km S
Rossall - 5.8 km SW
Thornton - 5.8 km SW
Out Rawcliffe - 7.2 km SE

Heritage Around Preesall

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.

Preesall in the Domesday Book (1086)