Preston-on-Tees, locally called Preston, is a village and

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in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 1,689. It is home to Preston Hall and it's accompanying public park. In the 2011, the village was included as a part of

Yarm Yarm, also referred to as Yarm-on-Tees, is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. It was previously a port town before the industry moved down the River Tees to more accessible settlements n ...

, being on Yarm Road and in a continuous built-up area down to Yarm High Street.

Governance

The parish originated as a

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in the Stockton-on-Tees parish, recognised as a civil parish itself in 1866. It was included in the Stockton poor law union and then the Stockton

rural sanitary district Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: *Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies *Rural sanitary dis ...

. In 1894 this became the Stockton Rural District. In 1968 part of it became part of the

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Teesside Teesside () is a built-up area around the River Tees in the north of England, split between County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name was initially used as a county borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Historically a hub for heavy manu ...

. It later became part of the non-metropolitan district of Stockton-on-Tees in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.

Demography

According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,748. It has a diverse number of property types, ranging from

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rented houses to large

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private dwellings.

Education

Preston-on-Tees has one school, Eaglescliffe Junction School was built in 1907, and later became known as Preston Primary School. The parish is in the catchment for Egglescliffe Secondary School.

Religious sites

There is a

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church on Witham Avenue. The church is named Eaglescliffe Trinity Methodist Church and was opened in 1902. There is also a Church of England parish church dedicated to All Saints, which was founded in the early 1900s as a church plant into Preston-on-Tees from the Church of St Thomas, Stockton.

References

Places in the Tees Valley Civil parishes in County Durham Borough of Stockton-on-Tees {{Durham-geo-stub