Preston-on-Stour

Footpath to Atherstone on Stour, view north along the footpath shortly after leaving Preston-on-Stour.

Preston-on-Stour is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England[1] found some four kilometres south of Stratford-on-Avon. The population of the civil parish as at the 2011 census was 244.[2] As the village name suggests the River Stour flows along its eastern fringe and the A3400 runs about 1 kilometre east. The village was historically part of Gloucestershire until in changed counties in 1931.[3] The village church is dedicated to Saint Mary.[4] The village did have an Infant and Primary School but this closed in 1974.[5] The children's television show the Teletubbies was filmed about two kilometres south of the village.

References

  1. ↑ Parish council website
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Preston on Stour at the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry". Bmsgh.org. 2000-01-03. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
  4. ↑ Some pictures of St Mary's Archived April 29, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "The school on the National Archives website". Nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2012-12-07.

External links

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Coordinates: 52°08′50″N 1°42′15″W / 52.147343°N 1.704180°W / 52.147343; -1.704180


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