PRESTON, a parish in the hundred of BABERGH, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Lavenham, containing 320 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 5. 6. 0., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Emanuel College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St, Mary.