Preston is a city in Lancashire. It may also refer to: This article is about Preston, Lancashire. ... Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...

• Preston (UK Parliament constituency)

Preston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Places

Australia

• Preston, Victoria
• Preston, Tasmania

High Street, Preston Preston is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Canada

• Preston, Nova Scotia
• Preston, Ontario: now part of the city of Cambridge, Ontario
• Preston Street, a thoroughfare through Ottawa

Preston is a provincial electoral district in Halifax County, Nova Scotia. ... For the electoral district, see Cambridge (electoral district). ... Preston Street is an important street in Ottawa, Canada. ...

Other places in England

• Preston, Devon
• Preston, Dorset
• Preston, Cotswold, Gloucestershire (near Cirencester)
• Preston, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire (near Ledbury)
• Preston, Hertfordshire
• Preston, Faversham, Kent
• Preston, Dover district, near Wingham, East Kent
• Preston, Northumberland
• Preston, Rutland
• Preston St Mary, Suffolk
• Preston Village, Brighton, Sussex
• Preston on Tees, Eaglescliffe, Teesside
• Preston, Tynemouth, Northumberland
• Preston, Wiltshire
• Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire, near Kingston upon Hull
• Preston Deanery, a village in Northamptonshire
• Preston Manor in the London Borough of Brent

For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Preston Sands Preston is a suburb located in the northern part of Paignton in Devon. ... Preston is a village in south Dorset, England, it is a suburb of Weymouth, situated approximately two miles outside of it. ... Preston is a village about 3 miles (5 km) south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. ... Preston is a small village in the east of the English county of Kent. ... Preston is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. ... A suburban area of Brighton to the north of the centre. ... Preston on Tees is an area to the north of Eaglescliffe in Teesside, England. ... Preston is an area of North Shields or Tynemouth. ... Preston is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. ... Preston or Preston Manor is the area near Preston Road tube station in the London Borough of Brent. ...

Scotland

• Preston, Borders in the Scottish Borders
• Preston, East Lothian

This article is about the country. ...

United States

• Preston, Connecticut
• Preston, Georgia
• Preston, Idaho (location and setting for the film Napoleon Dynamite)
• Preston, Iowa
• Preston, Kansas
• Preston, Kentucky
• Preston, Maryland
• Preston, Minnesota
• Preston, Mississippi
• Preston, New York
• Preston, Oklahoma
• Preston, Washington
• Preston County, West Virginia
• Preston, Adams County, Wisconsin
• Preston, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
• Preston Road, important thoroughfare to the history and growth of Dallas, Texas, built over a historically important cattle trail

Preston is a town located in New London County, Connecticut. ... Preston is a town located in Webster County, Georgia. ... Preston is a city located in Franklin County, Idaho, United States. ... Preston is a city located in Jackson County, Iowa. ... Preston is a city located in Pratt County, Kansas. ... Preston is a town located in Caroline County, Maryland. ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, tone, style, and voice). ... Preston is a town located in Chenango County, New York. ... Preston is a small community located in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. ... Preston is an unincorporated community in King County, Washington. ... Preston County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia and is part of the Pittsburgh DMA. It was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James Patton Preston. ... Preston is a town located in Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. ... Preston is a town located in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. ... State Highway 289, known for most of its length as Preston Road, is a north-south Texas state highway. ...

People

Surname

• Andrew Preston, American businessman, founder of United Fruit Company
• Billy Preston, musician (1946-2006)
• Brian Preston, a jurist in Wales
• Douglas Preston, author (b. 1956)
• Duke Preston, American football player
• Edward Carter Preston, English artist (1885 – 1965)
• Kelly Preston, American actress
• Kenneth O. Preston, top enlisted soldier in the US Army
• Ricardo "Rock" Preston, American football player
• Richard Preston, author (b. 1954)
• Robert Preston, actor (1918-1987)
• Samuel Preston (singer) (known simply as "Preston"), lead singer and guitarist of The Ordinary Boys
• Simon Preston, organist and composer
• Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier
• Thomas Preston (British army officer), Captain of the Boston Massacre soldiers
• Timothy Preston, Manitoba judge
• William Preston (American actor) (1921-1998)
• William Preston (Freemason), author of Illustrations of Masonry
• William Preston (Virginia), American Revolutionary War figure
• William Ballard Preston U.S. politician
• William Campbell Preston U.S. politician

Andrew Preston was a prominent American business man at the turn of the 20th century. ... William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. ... Brian Preston (July 10, 1958) is currently the Chief Justice of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court. ... Douglas Preston (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of several techno-thriller and horror novels with Lincoln Child. ... Duke Preston is a football player who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills. ... Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis Preston-Travolta (born October 13, 1962) is an American actress, also known for being the wife of actor John Travolta. ... Kenneth O. Preston (born February 18, 1957) is the current Sergeant Major of the Army in the United States. ... Rock Preston (born March 26, 1975 in Miami, Florida) is an American football player. ... Richard Preston (b. ... Robert Preston (1918 - 1987) was an American actor. ... For the American Civil War naval officer, see Samuel W. Preston Samuel Dylan Murray Preston (born 16 January 1982), more commonly known as Preston, is the lead singer of The Ordinary Boys, an English pop band. ... Simon Preston (b. ... Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585 - 1655) was an Irish soldier of the 17th century. ... Thomas Preston was an officer of the 29th Regiment of Foot who was present at the Boston Massacre March 5, 1770. ... William Preston was a Scottish author, born in Edinburgh, on the 7 August 1742. ... William Ballard Preston (November 25, 1805–16 November 1862) was a U.S. political figure. ... William C. Preston William Campbell Preston (December 27, 1794 – May 22, 1860) was a senator from the United States and a member of the Nullifier, and later Whig Parties. ...

First name

• Preston Brooks, U.S. politician
• Preston Geritano, murdered criminal
• Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party of Canada
• Preston Sturges, director
• Preston Tucker, automobile designer and entrepreneur

Preston Brooks Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was a Congressman from South Carolina, notorious for brutally assaulting senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate. ... Ernest Preston Manning (born June 10, 1942, in Edmonton, Alberta), is a right-wing populist Canadian politician. ... Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. ... Preston Thomas Tucker Preston Thomas Tucker (September 21, 1903 – December 26, 1956) was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur. ...

See also

• Preston Baronets, baronetcies created for persons with the surname Preston
• W.T. Preston, a stern wheel snagboat operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers

The W.T. Preston is a specialized sternwheeler that operated as a snagboat, removing log jams and natural debris that prevented river navigation on several Puget Sound-area rivers from Olympia up to Blane, including the Skagit, Stillaguamish, and Snohomish rivers. ...

Fictional characters

• Bill S. Preston Esq., one half of Bill and Ted, played by Alex Winter
• Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
• Dr. Preston Burke, Grey's Anatomy
• Preston the robot dog in the Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave
• Preston of the Spaceways, a fictional character from the Honorverse
• Preston (played by Colin Hanks), Carl Denham's assistant in King Kong (2005 film)