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.

Oakham is a great place to visit close to Preston if you like towns.

The area close to Preston boasts some of the best villages including Wakerley.

Preston is near some unmissable lakes like Rutland Water,

Preston History

There are some historic monuments around Preston:

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