Preston in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Amounderness

• Aighton
• Aldcliffe
• Aldingham
• Arkholme
• Aschebi
• Ashton [Hall]
• Ashton [on Ribble]
• Austwick
• Barbon
• Bardsea
• Bare
• Barnoldswick
• Barton
• Beetham

The Meaning of the Name

The name Preston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Preston

Historic England records 255 listed buildings within about a mile of Preston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Arkwright House - 0.36 km
• Church of St John the Divine - 0.41 km

Grade II

• Grimshaw Street School - 0.13 km
• Seventh Day Adventist Church - 0.14 km
• The George Hotel and Shop Adjoining to the Right - 0.15 km
• The Lamb Hotel and Shop Adjoining to the Right - 0.15 km
• Olde Blue Bell Public House - 0.18 km
• 18, Grimshaw Street - 0.18 km
• 16, Grimshaw Street - 0.19 km
• Former Unitarian Chapel - 0.21 km
• Prison Annexe (Formerly the Governor’s House) - 0.22 km
• The Old Sessions House - 0.24 km
• The Bears Paw Public House - 0.26 km
• St James Vicarage and Attached Coach House - 0.26 km
• Carey Baptist Chapel - 0.28 km
• 131A, Church Street - 0.32 km
• Church of St Mary - 0.32 km
• Gate Piers, Gates and Boundary Wall to Churchyard of Church of St Mary - 0.33 km
• The Old Dog Inn - 0.34 km
• 29,30,31, Church Street - 0.34 km
• Gate Piers and Gates to Churchyard Opposite East End of Church of St John - 0.39 km
• 35, ST AUSTIN’S ROAD (See details for further address information) - 0.39 km
• Former Church of St Paul (Now Red Rose Radio) - 0.4 km
• 30, 32 and 34 St Austin’s Road - 0.4 km

…and 231 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Preston

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Preston:

• Roman settlement and industrial area at Winery Lane - 1.38 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Walton -le-Dale - 1.4 km SE
• Higher and Lower Penwortham - 1.4 km SW
• Fishwick - 2.0 km E
• Ashton on Ribble - 2.2 km NW
• Broughton - 5.4 km N
• Lea - 6.1 km W