Great Preston is a small village in the City of Leeds

City of Leeds

The City of Leeds is a local government district of West Yorkshire, England, governed by Leeds City Council, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough. The metropolitan district includes Leeds and the towns of Farsley, Garforth, Guiseley, Horsforth, Morley, Otley, Pudsey, Rothwell,...

 metropolitan borough

Metropolitan borough

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, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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, England

England

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. It is situated 8 miles (13 km) south east of Leeds city centre

Leeds City Centre

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, near to the town of Garforth

Garforth

Garforth is a town within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England. The 2001 Census lists 23,892 residents in the Garforth and Swillington ward - 80.57% of which are homeowners, 20% more than the average for Leeds. Garforth itself has 15,394 of those people...

 and the villages of Kippax

Kippax, West Yorkshire

Kippax is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the east of the city, near to Garforth and Great Preston....

, Swillington

Swillington

Swillington is a small village and civil parish near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. It is located east of the River Aire and surrounded by streams including Fleakingley Beck. As of 2001, Swillington had a population of about 3,530.Swillington used to be a...

 and Little Preston. The village is in the LS26 Leeds postcode area

LS postcode area

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, and forms part of the civil parish

Civil parish

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 of Great and Little Preston, which has a population of 1,449.

Great Preston has one pub, a local cricket

Cricket

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 team, a post office and a village hall. There is now one school that is located at Brigshaw. The church was closed in 1992, and changed into a community centre in 1998. The Working Men's club has also shut down and is for sale. A fire was discovered at a house on Berry Lane in the late evening of 3rd June 2010 Police are probing suspected arson attack at this Leeds home.

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External links

• Great and Little Preston Parish Council Website
• Official Great Preston Cricket Club Website
• The Ancient Parish of Kippax at GENUKI
  GENUKI
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  : Great Preston was in this parish