Preston
Preston | |||
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Coordinates | 53 ° 46 ′ N , 2 ° 42 ′ W | ||
OS National Grid | SD535295 | ||
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Residents | 188,200 (as of 2011) | ||
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prefix | 01772 | ||
Part of the country | England | ||
Shire county | Lancashire | ||
Ceremonial county | Lancashire | ||
District | Preston | ||
ONS code | 30UK | ||
Website: www.preston.gov.uk | |||
Preston is a city in England , United Kingdom . It is located in the region North West England in the county of Lancashire on the River Ribble . In 2011 it had a population of 188,200, the City of Preston county 140,202.
history
Preston was first mentioned in a document in 1080 and received city charter from the hands of Henry II in 1179 . In 1322 Preston was burned down by the Scottish Army under Robert the Bruce . During the English Civil War , the royalists were defeated at the Battle of Preston (1648) at the gates of the city. The Jacobites were fought at the Battle of Preston (1715) .
In the 19th century Preston was a boom town in the textile industry , which began to migrate in the mid-20th century. In 1920 Preston became the county seat of Lancashire . In 2002 Preston was officially named City (previously Town ).
Town twinning
- Almelo , Netherlands
- Nîmes in France
- Recklinghausen in Germany
- Kalisz in Poland
Culture and sights
A well-known landmark of Preston is the Roman Catholic Saint Walburge's Church , which was planned in the neo-Gothic style by Joseph Hansom and completed in 1854. With its 94 m height it has one of the highest church towers in England.
Museums
- Harris Museum and Art Gallery
- Museum of Lancashire
- Museum of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment
- Preston Guild Hall
Parks
- Moor Park (one of England's first public parks)
- Avenham Park
Sports
The Preston North End FC (the Lilywhites ) is one of the oldest football clubs in England and has u. a. 1889 won the first ever league championship.
Important snooker tournaments were and are held in Preston . In 1998, 1999 and 2001-2005 the Grand Prix / LG Cup and in 2017 and 2018 the World Grand Prix . In addition, between 1978 and 1997, the UK Championship, the second most important tournament on the Snooker Main Tour, was held in Preston.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The M6 , one of the most important motorways in England, the first section of which was built near Preston in 1958 , connects the city with the metropolises of Manchester and Birmingham in the south and the Scottish border at Carlisle . The M55 provides the connection to Blackpool .
Preston Station on the West Coast Main Line is a major rail hub in north-west England with long-distance connections to London, Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as numerous regional connections.
The city is at the south end of the Lancaster Canal . The canal, which ran as far as Kendal in Cumbria , served some a. the transportation of wool and slate from Cumbria; today it is reserved for pleasure boating alone. Since 2002, the canal has been connected to the Ribble Link to the River Ribble and thus to the rest of England's canal network via the expansion of the Savick Brook , which crosses the city from east to west on the northern edge .
education
The University of Central Lancashire is the sixth largest university in Great Britain with around 35,000 students.
The Preston Catholic College in Winckley Square was closed 1978th
Efforts to strengthen the local economy
After private foreign corporations withdrew from a planned shopping center as a result of the global financial crisis , the city administration has been relying on an alliance of public organizations since 2011, which now also assess the positive effects on the local economy when awarding contracts. This means that more and more local small companies are getting involved, so that the economic situation of the city, which was previously characterized by deindustrialization and high unemployment , has noticeably improved.
Personalities
- Charles Hugh Alison (1882–1952), golf architect
- Adrian Alston (* 1949), Australian football player and coach
- Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), inventor and industrialist
- Kenny Baker (1934-2016), actor
- Wade Barrett (born 1980), wrestler
- Bill Beaumont (born 1952), rugby player
- Ian Berry (* 1934), photographer and photojournalist, member of the Magnum Photos photo agency
- Eddie Calvert (1922–1978), trumpeter
- Ronnie Clayton (1934-2010), football player
- Helen Clitheroe (* 1974), middle-distance, long-distance and obstacle runner
- Brian Cookson (born 1951), sports official, President of British Cycling
- James Edgar Dandy (1903–1976), botanist
- Arthur Devis (1712–1787), portrait painter
- Paul Englishby (* 1970), composer
- Derek Fazackerley (born 1951), football player
- Kathleen Ferrier (1912–1953), contralto
- Tom Finney (1922-2014), football player
- John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), officer
- Keef Hartley (1944-2011), rock musician (drums)
- George Haslam (* 1939), jazz musician and music producer
- Alan Kelly junior (born 1968), Irish football player
- John Philip Kemble (1757–1823), actor
- Kevin Kilbane (born 1977), soccer player
- Richard Stuart Lake (1860–1950), Canadian politician
- Joseph Livesey (1794–1884), philanthropist and founder of the Temperance Movement
- Ian McCulloch (born 1971), snooker player
- Sophie McDonnell (* 1976), actress, presenter, singer and model
- Josh Morris (born 1991), soccer player
- Nick Park (born 1958), filmmaker ( Wallace and Gromit )
- Thomas Wulstan Pearson (1870–1938), Roman Catholic religious and Bishop of Lancaster
- Matthäus von Rosthorn the Elder (1721–1805), engineer, progenitor of the Austrian Rosthorn dynasty
- Robert W. Service (1874–1958), Canadian poet and novelist
- Francis Thompson (1859-1907), poet
- James Weir (born 1995), football player
- Lisa Whiteside (* 1985), boxer
- Ian Bibby (* 1986), cyclist
- Naomi Ogbeta (* 1998), track and field athlete
photos
Web links
- Preston City Council (English)
- Visit Preston (English)
- University of Central Lancashire in Preston (English)
- Preston . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 337.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica: Preston ( English ) Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ↑ Aditya Chakrabortty: In 2011 Preston hit rock bottom. Then it took back control. In: The Guardian , January 31, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019.
- ↑ Erik Albrecht: U-turn in Preston: English city has had enough of capitalism . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , January 7, 2019, accessed on January 8, 2019