Description
Preston, a pleasant village and a parish in Rutland. The village stands 1 1/2 mile SW of Manton Junction station on the Syston and Peterborough, and Nottingham and Kettering branches of the M.R., and 2 miles N by E of Uppingham, and has a post office under Uppingham; money order office, Wing; telegraph office, Uppingham. The parish comprises 1207 acres; population, 286. The manor belonged formerly to the Nevilles, and belongs now to the Earl of Gainsborough. The Old Manor House, an ancient Tudor mansion, and Preston Hall, a fine building in the Elizabethan style, are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough ; gross value, £140 with residence. The church, which consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, vestry, and an embattled western tower, is an ancient edifice of stone showing examples of almost every style from Norman down to Renaissance. It has a beautiful reredos of Caen stone and alabaster, some good stained windows, and some memorials of the Shield and Belgrave families. There is a Congregational chapel.
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Preston which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
