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More about Preston Lancashire
Preston is a city and local government district in
North West England. It is the administrative centre of
Lancashire, and is on the River Ribble. Preston was
granted the status of a city in 2002, becoming England's
50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
Among other things, Preston is famous for Preston North
End F.C., one of the oldest Football League teams, the
National Football Museum the home of English Football
heritage, St Walburge's Church (the tallest church in
England designed by Joseph Hansom of Hansom Cab fame,
with the third-highest spire at 94 metres), and Europe's
second largest bus station (with 79 gates). Preston is
also a major stop on the West Coast Main Line, with
regular long distance train services to London and the
South East.
The southern part of the district is mostly urbanised
but the northern part is quite rural. The current
borders came into effect on April 1, 1974, when the
Local Government Act 1972 merged the existing county
borough of Preston with Fulwood urban district and part
of Preston Rural District.
During the Roman period the road from the Setantian port
of Neb of the Nese passed one mile north of Preston and
intersected the road from Languavallium in Cumberland to
Condate in Cheshire in Preston at Tulketh-hall.
In Ripon in 705 the lands near the River Ribble were set
on a new foundation, and the parish church was probably
erected. Later Edward the Elder passed the lands to
cathedral at York and then from successive transfers the
lands were passed round between churches, hence the name
Priest's Town or Preston. An alternative explanation of
the origin of the name is that the Priest's Town refers
to a priory set up by St. Wilfrid near the Ribble's
lowest ford. This idea is reinforced by similarity of
Preston's crest bearing a lamb with St. Wilfrid's banner
(Walsh and Butler 1992).
The strategic location of the city, almost exactly
mid-way between Glasgow and London, is demonstrated in
that decisive battles of the English Civil War (1643)
and the first Jacobite rebellion (1715) were fought in
Preston.
In 1825 Preston was in the hundred of Amounderness, in
the deanery of Amounderness and the archdeaconry of
Richmond. The name of Amounderness is more ancient than
the name of any other Wapentake or hundred in the County
of Lancaster, and so Preston dates from at least the
High Saxon period. Served by the River Ribble, Preston
was one of the principal ports of Lancaster. King
Charles I demanded a quarter more ship money than from
Lancaster and twice as much as from Liverpool.
The 19th Century saw a transformation in Preston from a
small market town to a much larger industrial one, as
the innovations of the latter half of the previous
century such as Richard Arkwright's Water Frame
(invented in Preston) brought cotton mills to many
Northern English towns. With industrialisation came
examples of both oppression and enlightenment.
The town's forward-looking spirit is typified by its
being the first English town outside London to be lit by
gas. The Preston Gas Company was established in 1815 by,
amongst others, a Catholic priest: Fr. Joseph "Daddy"
Dunn of the Society of Jesus.
The more oppresive side of industrialisation was seen on
Saturday 13th August 1842, when a group of cotton
workers demonstrated against the poor conditions in the
town's mills. The Riot Act was read and armed troops
corralled the demonstrators in front of the Corn
Exchange on Lune Street. Shots were fired and four of
the demonstrators were killed. A commemorative sculpture
now stands on the spot (although the soldiers and
demonstrators represented are facing the wrong way). In
the 1850s, Karl Marx visited Preston and later described
the town as "the next Saint Petersburg".
The Preston Temperance Society, led by Joseph Livesey
pioneered the Temperance movement in the 19th Century.
Indeed the term Teetotalism is believed to have been
coined at one of its meetings. The website of the
University of Central Lancashire library has a great
deal of information on Joseph Livesey and the Temperance
movement in Preston.
Preston was designated as part of the Central Lancashire
new town in 1970.
Preston is home to two BAE Systems factories. Its
biggest is Warton which builds the Eurofighter, the
other is Samlesbury, though the latter has recently been
sold to Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
Courtesy of Wikimedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston |
