PRESTON (LONG), a parish in the western division
of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-and-EWCROSS,
West riding of the county of YORK, comprising the
townships of Hellifield, Long Preston, and Wigglesworth,
and containing 1491 inhabitants, of which
number, 733 are in the township of Long Preston, 4
miles (S.byE.) from Settle. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the
king's books at £10. 18. llf., and in the patronage of
the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists.