Preston is a Village in the county of Rutland.

Retail in Preston

There are great places to visit near Preston including some great towns, villages and lakes.

The area close to Preston boasts some of the best towns including Oakham.

The area around Preston's best villages can be found at Wakerley.

Rutland Water is one of Preston's best, nearby lakes to visit in Preston.

Preston History

There are some historic monuments around Preston:

• Dovecot and arch, formerly lodge of Brooke House
• Bridge over River Chater
• Rockingham Castle, shrunken medieval village, moat and warrens
• Earthwork in Morcott Spinney
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Beaumont Chase
• Lyddington Bedehouse: a medieval bishop's palace and post-medieval almshouse with moat, gardens, fishponds and cultivation remains
• Oakham motte and bailey castle and medieval gardens
• Kirby Hall: an Elizabethan country house and gardens, including the remains of the medieval village of Kirby
• Alstoe Moot and part of Alsthorpe deserted medieval village
• Butter Cross and stocks
• Standing cross on The Green, 130m north west of The Bede House
• Market cross 10m west of Cross Farmhouse
• Barnhill moated site at Hambleton
• Moated site at North Luffenham
• Village cross at junction of Well Cross and King Edward's Way
• Exton Old Hall
• Deserted medieval village on A6003, Snelston
• Maze 220m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• Moated site at Allexton
• Bronze Age enclosure
• Martinsthorpe deserted medieval village