PRESTON: East Riding of Yorkshire Parish #135 of 172

PRESTON: East Riding of Yorkshire Parish #135 of 172

Hello my name is Andy and I Am The Village Idiot I’m armed with a car and a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands I’m using that time to attempt to visit every civil Parish in England you’re watching the East Riding of Yorkshire series together with the

Unparished city of Hull it forms the county of the same name there’s 172 parishes here which one are we in today welcome back to the East Riding of Yorkshire yet again folks now we saw heeden last week and that was quite an impressive place you will admit well

This place is just to the north of heeden it’s also partially to the South I’ll explain that as we go around this place welcome to the lovely Preston Here’s my disclaimer for people who may be watching me for the first time I say things as I would in my native accent and dialect as a result I may not pronounce things in the same way as the locals do remember I’m a visitor it’s impossible to know everything leave me a

Comment spin me a like and Bash that subscribe button let’s get to today’s Parish video Preston priest’s town if you live in Lancashire and you’ve clicked on this video you might have thought it was about a town in York County alas not we’re in the East Riding of Yorkshire

And the last one to cover to the immediate east of Hull is the Parish of Preston it’s a complicated little place this one it consists of three main areas Preston Village where our main walk will be Preston South which is often mistaken for being part of headen and salt end

Which has both a huge Chemical Works and a power station recently Preston and South was marked clearly by the council however the two are not geographically all that close and still stand as two separate areas separated in places by headen since suan sits on the Humber visiting this one means we’ve completed

The entire Humber Ester east of the Humber Bridge crackers Preston means priest’s Town it was an important ecclesiastical Center predating the much more historic town of headen to the South Preston’s features include haleness Academy a secondary school which has made headlines in recent times its 13th century church is its main

Focus standing on a tight bend on an equally tight main village Street there are two pubs a couple of businesses and a fair few hidden gems so without further Ado let’s get Moving We Begin our trip around Preston with what many people incorrectly believe to be part of heden this is Preston South an area to the immediate west of the Westlands estate which we walked through last week this area has never been part of hen and it’s governed by Preston Parish Council it’s mainly residential

But it does have one major landmark the local supermarket headen branch of sainsbury it used to be be a co-op store and then a Netto before Sainsbury’s took over in 2016 in 2022 this Supermarket hit the headlines because three cars parked in its car park were engulfed in

A terrifying Inferno which required the efforts of two fire engines to extinguish next to the superstore is a small industrial estate St Augustine’s Park which has office blocks used by Yorkshire water across the way is a pub and hotel named the Kingstown I can recommend it because we’ve stayed in it

Before remember though none of this is head it’s Preston South the East Riding Council even went so far as to put up signs recently to avoid confusion most of Preston lies to the north of hen and our main walk starts on Kirk Road literally Church Road as Kirk

Is the old word for church it’s a narrow Terrace Street and one of the oldest in the village at its West Western end is All Saints Church a grade one listed building which dominates the local surroundings since Preston was mentioned in the Doomsday Book and headen wasn’t

Locally this was the village that was the most important ecclesiastical Center in the area its name is also a big clue because Preston means priest Town All Saints is an ancient edifice Made of Stone with a massive Western Tower containing three Bells no remains of the church mentioned in the Doomsday

Book are to be found in the present structure which is mostly 13th century it was last thoroughly restored in 1882 the churchard features an obelisk which originally I thought was the war memorial however that’s elsewhere as we’ll see in a moment there can be no mistaking the Christmas tree though

That’s right outside the front door which is always open so let’s go in and have a look I can’t tell you how many times I’ve past this church on route to other places in the East Riding seems to be more times than I can count and now we’re finally inside let’s have a

Look so very tall Church similar to patrington Let’s head into the chancel let’s see what we’ve got in here got a big light at the end there’s a tablet up on the wall over there can’t read what it says I think it’s John Stevenson maybe I can read it

Writing’s just just uh large enough for me to see the organ there seems to be a new part here look this bit here seems to be uh very modern it’s like a separate little room it’s like a committee room isn’t it I guess seems to be not sure if there’s some kitchen

Facilities in there actually looks like could be let’s have a look on this side obviously it’s near Christmas at the moment so there is a big nativity scene in this corner and then on the wall the Wall Memorial or rooll of Honor if you like if you

Will World War I only by the looks of it oh that’s nice that must have been done for the uh 100th anniversary cool oh there’s another Memorial there looks might be the second world war yeah it is awesome right let’s carry on as well as those memorials on the

Inside there’s one outside too this lists everyone who served and returned in World War I with those who died in the middle now we’re on the other other side of the church and as you can see it stands on a sharp Bend it’s a 20 mph

Zone here and for good reason nearby is Alan Jones butchers and Bakers famous in these parts for their awesome meat pies they’re at number 37 Main Street and two doors up is this Grand three-story property at number 41 I couldn’t find much about this one but even so it’s still a gorgeous

House up next is Preston Community Center it’s a village hall which also presents plays and films for the local community outside the hall is a parish notice board and you know what that means 37 to go folks let’s continue up the road Preston once had a very unusual Hall it was a

Chapel likee building for the Ancient Order of Druids and it was built in 1876 it still stands this is it and if you look closely you can still see the word Druids carved into the stone over the door it’s now Preston Recreation Club next we have sproutly Road where we

Encounter the first of the two Village pubs the Nags Head this is been owned by the same family for upwards of 35 years and it has two bars a children’s play area and runs both darts and Domino’s teams close by is a bus stop and behind

It you can see a raft of brand new houses headstock Meadows they’re still in the process of being built by Ward hommes Yorkshire when finished there will be a total of 24 contemporary to three and four bedroom homes with all the amenities needed for modern living Preston is not unfamiliar with

New developments it’s grown a few times over the last few decades All Saints Muse is another example of a street that’s gone up recently and our next job is to make our way through it onto Mana Road annoyingly Preston has quite a few cold dis acts meaning planning a

Circular route around this Village was really hard effectively what we’re doing here is forming the biggest Loop possible around the northern and Eastern fringes of the village but this won’t cover every single Street going I’m afraid I struggle to write anything for this part of the village it has to be

Said because it’s overwhelmingly residential even so punctuating the properties is a small stream this doesn’t appear to have a name but this and the other waterways around Preston feed burstwick drain at Hen there were some sheep awaiting my arrival in the fields here at this point you wouldn’t

Know you were on the fringes of a bustling Market Town we’ve arrived at East End Road which runs north towards the Hamlet of the same name which has a farm or two but not a lot else East End also features the local Cemetery officially titled Preston Parish burial ground it’s worth noting

That the brand new 9.6 million lelly fields cror torium which we looked at in the elstrom wick episode is also within Preston Parish East End Road is very similar to Mana Road it’s been built in stages with the older houses tending to be on the right towards the end of the

Street we find peace walk a private Drive I wonder how or why that got its name over the way is Thornton Grove and that brings us to School Road Preston has had two chapels one for the Wesleyan methodists and one for The Primitives School Road has the latter it

Was built in 1822 and closed in 1955 seen here it became a workshop in 1980 and it’s now a Chinese Takeaway Grand Ruby directly over the road are some terorist houses modern ones with really high pitched roofs I reckon they were quite cool nearby are the bead houses a collection of charitable properties

Built for the poorest in the community here in Preston that was this Terrace here now we’ve turned around in doing so I took a particular interest in this house which looks like some old kind of shop or maybe an office it can be found on the end of WG Hill Road which School

Road becomes as it heads towards burstwick alongside it is a footway to Oak Tree estate now I’ll Stand hanging if it’s an oak but this has a very distinctive Tree on a green the big house behind it is Oak Tree House Residential Care Home which can cater

For 20 residents in 20 single rooms overnight visitors can usually be accommodated to Oak Tree estate is a dead end so heading the other way brings us onto Station Road Preston never had a railway station of its own as it shared the one at Hen along here however are two

Emergency service stations seen here we have Preston fire station which was established in 1957 it serves Preston and the southern areas of Holden s around the back of it is the the Preston ambulance station one of 62 in total that can be found across Yorkshire the road becomes a little empty afterwards

But not for [Applause] long a road sign tells us we’re now entering a school zone there are two schools here one a primary the other a secondary this part of Station Road as a result is a 20 mph limit accounting for the high volume of children present in this area at peak times

This part of Preston has always been School related along with the existing schools you’ll also find an old school house hiding away Behind These tall iron gates Preston Primary School Cates for about 180 children aged 4 to 11 from both the village and from the surrounding area haleness Academy is next door

Formerly known as South haleness Technology College until its conversion to an academy in 2018 this has a massive catchment area which stretches as far away as Coastal Villages like easington and alra as of 2023 there were just over 1100 pupils on roll in this school holderness academy hit the headlines

Recently for the wrong reasons its uniform policy which it robustly defends was considered by some to be far too harsh after one of its school girls was punished for wearing the wrong brand of skirt in the school’s grounds is this Youth Center a Station Road is fairly

Open at points down here with not many buildings you do get a really good view across the fields towards salt end and the towers of its chemical works even though it’s so far away and lies on the Humber EST geographically closer to headen Salt end forms part of Preston

Parish we’ll end up there later completing this school section is a preschool and day Nursery this is another part of the private song birds establishment that we met last week in hen after walking back up the road towards the church we’re met with Preston’s Central Junction this is a narrow

Crossroads and far too difficult to navigate without traffic lights approaching from headen there are actually two sets of Lights in order to prevent cars waiting at the narrowest point on the crossroads is the second Chapel this one was originally for the Wesleyan it’s still in use as Preston

Methodist Church after a quick glance up sko Road this time from the other end it’s time to tackle Main Street over the junction we find the and Bell Inn this is a multi-roomed pub with a single bar and a pool room it’s very much a locals pub with popular

Live music nights on that note pun very much intended this also has an annual Festival named cockstock which showcases local bands and artists right outside the pub is a white phone box of course classic East Riding beyond that is a pizza takeaway Al Capone which used to

Be called Pizza Palace the bus stop you see here is served by the number 277 between headen and Hull now for a gentle amble up Main Street back to the church this is the oldest part of Preston and you can easily tell it has an array of terorist

Cottages and references to bygone times like old Granary court on the right hand side Preston doesn’t have a lot in the way of modern businesses aside from the ones we’ve already covered Main Street doesn’t have a great deal to add until recently there was a third pup here the

Blacksmith’s arms which closed its doors in 2015 it was located next to Al Capone and it’s now a private house there is a convenience store which doubles as the post office as well as Paul’s barber shop and Main Street both of which are equally Adept at cutting and styling hair

The rest of the road is residential and it’s not hard to tell you’re in the East Riding is it this kind of Narrow close-knit Street with brick Terraces confirms beyond all reasonable doubt that we’re not in Preston Lancashire before long we find ourselves back in the shadow of All Saints Church having

Spent almost an hour exploring this lovely little East Riding Village we briefly mentioned it earlier but today’s special section is about the ly fields atorium when we saw it in the elstrom wick episode it was still under construction but now it’s complete ly Fields cost a whopping 9.6 million to

Build and it opened in early 2023 it builds itself as being the heart of Holden s ly Fields is the First new crematorium to be built in the East Riding since the opening of Holton price in 1998 although generally accepted amongst the community its development did bring concerns about potential

Traffic problems and congestion in Preston when the scheme was first announced the the feeling was though amongst all that there was a clear need for the facility which will serve the area for generations to come it also created new jobs for crematorium officers operatives and caretakers upon

Opening people were invited for a behind the-scenes look at the new crematorium including being allowed access to all the areas that the general public normally wouldn’t be allowed to we all know at least one person who would have been all over that and there you go then we are back

At the church where we began about an hour and 15 minutes ago it’s a big old place is press you don’t realize how big it actually is when you look at the map you think to yourself oh that’s quite small it’s not really took me quite a

Long time to walk around it oh the church bells are chiming that’s quite nice right there’s one more thing I still need to cover and that is salt end and we’re going to take a drive down there to finish off this episode driving to Salt end means using st’s

Road which leads directly to a roundabout on the edge of a huge Industrial Area this Northern end of the road isn’t all that exciting save for right’s garage on the left and a few small businesses further up the road that’s practically it the other end is much more interesting as you near Salt

End you go over the former Hull and Holden s Railway and immediately to your left is a former race course which held its first meeting in 1888 it became an Aerodrome in 1929 and was opened by the Duke of Kent that was only shortlived though and closed during World War II

Afterwards the site was briefly used as a Speedway track but now it’s simply been left for grazing cattle suten sits on the Northern Bank of the Humber it’s classified as a hamlet although residences here are few the place is dominated by a huge Chemical Works and a gas fired Power

Station chemicals produced at Salt end include acetic acid and acetic anhydride roughly 900,000 tons annually this makes salten the largest producer of these chemicals anywhere in Europe salten power station was commissioned in the year 2000 by ENT energy an American power generator it was later sold to fellow American company Calpine before

Coming into the hands of international power and midu in 2005 salt end is one of the most efficient power stations in the UK because its main waste product steam which it produces 120 tons off every hour is sold to The Chemical Works salt end is ever expanding in July 2021

Clearance Works were started on a new Factory designed to deal with rare earth metals mined in Africa north of the a1033 and away from the main chemicals Park is Yorkshire Waters waste treatment works this can sometimes be smelly and although Yorkshire water invested 30 million pound a few years ago to improve

The odors emanating from the plant local people in Preston and hen still complain they’ve even employed solicitors to bring about legal action over the smell and speaking of the a1033 that’s our ticket out of here it’s the road into Hull which passes the port on the left

Hand side also on the Humber estery that’s been Preston and with it everything to the east of Hull is complete next time in the East Riding we’ll be heading back North again as we begin to explore the fringes of Bridlington Thanks for watching this video folks don’t forget to like this episode if you haven’t already it really makes a difference with YouTube if you’re new here subscribe to the channel for more videos like this and give us a share too if you’ve got friends who’d like it you

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EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE PARISH #135: PRESTON

Preston – “Priest’s Town”

If you live in Lancashire and you’ve clicked on this video, you might have thought it was about a town in your county. Alas not, we’re in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and the last one to cover to the immediate east of Hull is the parish of Preston. It’s a complicated little place this one. It consists of three main areas – Preston village where our main walk will be; Preston South, which is often mistaken for being part of Hedon, and Salt End which has both a huge chemical works and a power station.

Recently ‘Preston (South)’ was marked clearly by the Council, however the two are not geographically all that close, and still stand as two separate areas separated in places by Hedon. Since Salt End sits on the Humber, visiting this one means we’ve completed the entire Humber Estuary East of the Humber Bridge. Crackers. Preston means “Priest’s Town”. It was an important ecclesiastical centre, predating the much more historic town of Hedon to the South.

Preston’s features include Holderness Academy, a secondary school which has made headlines in recent times. Its 13th century church is its main focus, standing on a tight bend, on an equally tight main village street. There are two pubs, a couple of businesses, and a few hidden gems. Let’s get moving!

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GENUKI:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Preston/Preston92

Lelley Fields:
https://www.yorhub.com/projects/lelley-fields-crematorium/

New crematorium – overcapacity issue?

‘Tranquil’ crematorium officially opens

https://www.treskechurchfurniture.com/crematoriums/case-study/lelley-fields-crematorium
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/gallery/inside-east-ridings-first-new-8381038
https://lelleyfields.co.uk/

Ward Homes:

Headstock Meadows

Nags Head:
https://whatpub.com/pubs/HUL/PRE003/nags-head-preston

Community Centre:
https://www.visiteastyorkshire.co.uk/listing/preston-community-hall/129606101/

Druid Hall:

Alan Jones:
https://www.facebook.com/ajonesbutchersandbakers/

Roll of Honour:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Preston/PrestonAllSaintsWM_1Photo

Oak Tree House:
https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-122683-oak-tree-house-residential-care-home-preston-england

Yorkshire Ambulance Station:
https://www.yas.nhs.uk/contact-us/contact-us/

Fire Station:
https://humbersidefire.gov.uk/your-local-area/east-riding-of-yorkshire/preston

Primitive Chapel:

Preston Primitive Methodist chapel

Church:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Preston/Preston92
https://www.findachurch.co.uk/church/preston-east-riding-of-yorkshire/41727.htm

Sainsburys:
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/dramatic-scenes-three-vehicles-engulfed-7283015
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/property-and-planning/sainsburys-to-convert-former-netto-stores-in-lymm-and-hedon/542384.article

Blacksmiths Arms:
https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/preston_blacksmithsarms.html

Cock and Bell:
https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Cock-And-Bell-Inn-100057525816462/
https://whatpub.com/pubs/HUL/PRE002/cock-bell-preston

Primary School:
https://snobe.co.uk/schools/preston-primary-school-1

Demographics:
http://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/yorkshireandthehumber/admin/east_riding_of_yorkshire/E04000454__preston/

Rightmove:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/preston-20254.html?page=1

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Helen Flunder – “Sun” (H. Flunder)

Helen Flunder – “Angels” (H. Flunder)

Helen Flunder – “C Song” (H. Flunder)

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