• The Preston Tithebarn redevelopment project was a £700 million city centre regeneration initiative in Preston, Lancashire. The project was intended to...
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  • Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional association football club in Preston, Lancashire...
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    building was threatened with demolition as part of the City Council's Tithebarn redevelopment project. After two unsuccessful attempts, it was granted Grade...
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    The Battle of Preston (9–14 November 1715) was the final action of the Jacobite rising of 1715, an attempt to put James Francis Edward Stuart on the British...
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    An £800 million regeneration project known as the Tithebarn Project was also planned for Preston. The project was originally managed by property giants...
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    The Preston Bypass was the United Kingdom's first motorway, opened in 1958. It was designed and engineered by Lancashire County Council surveyor James...
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    Deepdale (category Buildings and structures in Preston)
    Deepdale is a football stadium in the Deepdale area of Preston, England that is the home ground of Preston North End. Built in 1875 and in use since 1878, Deepdale...
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    The battle of Preston was fought on 17 August 1648 during the Second English Civil War. A Parliamentarian army commanded by Lieutenant General Oliver...
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    Booths (category Companies based in Preston)
    Burscough Carnforth Chorley Clitheroe Fulwood, Preston Garstang Hesketh Bank Longridge Longton, Preston Lytham Penwortham Poulton-le-Fylde Scotforth, Lancaster...
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    Preston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Sir Mark Hendrick, a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative...
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    The City of Preston, or simply Preston (/ˈprɛstən/ ), is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. It lies on the north bank...
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  • Avenham 1 Avenham 2 Crystal House Lowthian House Red Rose House Telephone House Palatine House The Linen Building Ringway Tower Tithebarn Redevelopment...
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    Hambleton and Stalmine-with-Staynall, Hardhorn, High Cross, Norcross, Staina, Tithebarn. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster...
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    (equivalent to £22,868,000 in 2023) Preston bus station was opened on Tithebarn Street, the site of a Ribble Motor Services station, after two years of...
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  • Preston Grasshoppers Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team from Preston, Lancashire. The men's senior team play in the RFU National League...
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    Hits Radio Lancashire (category Mass media in Preston)
    studio premises subsequently fell through and the station remained in Preston. The managing director was Dave Lincoln, with Mark Matthews as programme...
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  • The Preston and Longridge Railway (P&LR) was a branch line in Lancashire, England. Originally designed to carry quarried stone in horse-drawn wagons,...
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    Preston railway station, in Preston, Lancashire, England, is an interchange on the West Coast Main Line; it is approximately half-way between London Euston...
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    Preston South was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Preston in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons...
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    Ribble Steam Railway (category Tourist attractions in Preston)
    Kingdom. It was opened to the public on 17 September 2005, running along Preston Docks. The railway began by housing much of the collection from the previously...
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  • (the rule was repealed in 1971). Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. was founded in Preston, Lancashire, England as a World War I-era works team for the company Dick...
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    Preston City Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time. Preston City Council is...
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    (previously abbreviated UCLan) is a public university based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. It has its roots in The Institution For The Diffusion...
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    districts of Preston. The population of the Ward as taken at the 2011 census was 3,578. College is in the Fulwood area in northern Preston, Lancashire...
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    Preston North was a parliamentary constituency in Lancashire, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of...
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  • 758°N 2.703°W / 53.758; -2.703 Preston was a rural district in Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974. It surrounded Preston to the north, west and east....
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    2°44′W / 53.83°N 2.73°W / 53.83; -2.73 Preston Rural North is an electoral ward in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. The ward is the largest...
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  • Dick, Kerr & Co. (category Manufacturing companies based in Preston)
    locomotive and tramcar manufacturer based in Kilmarnock, Scotland and Preston, England. W.B. Dick and Company was founded in 1854 in Glasgow by William...
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  • British owned independent professional wrestling promotion established as Preston City Wrestling in 2011. It was re-branded as Pro Championship Wrestling...
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    Liverpool Exchange Station with the ELR naming the station Liverpool Tithebarn Street. The lines into the station were carried on a brick-built viaduct...
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