PRESTON-upon-WYE, a parish in the hundred of WEBTREE, county of HEREFORD,, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Hereford, containing 272 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Blakemere, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £3. 16. 9., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence.