PRESTON, a parish partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK,
and partly in the middle division of the
wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the county
of YORK, comprising the townships of Lelley and
Preston, and containing 947 inhabitants, of which number,
828 are in the township of Preston, 7 miles (E. by
N.) from Kingston upon Hull. The living is a discharged
vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Hedon,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Sub-
Dean of York, rated in the king's books at £ 12, and
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. The church,
dedicated to All Saints, is in the later style of English
architecture. There are places of worship for Primitive
and Wesleyan Methodists. Thomas Holmes, in 1718,
gave £ 200 to support of a school, which sum was laid
out in land, now producing an annual income of about
£27, for which twenty-seven children are educated.