“What Bolton Priory and manorial records

tell us about Long Preston

in the late medieval period.”


We are pleased to publish this short paper by Tony Stephens.

Click here to open the paper as a PDF document. ( Size 0.7 MB )

Tony Stephens suggests that the surviving Long Preston records show how the village developed from a single centre at Domesday, and concludes that the basic structure of both the Long Preston townscape and landscape has changed little between the 14th century and the present day.


We have also published a booklet by Tony Stephens

that explores in greater detail the 800 years of our history.

See the Publications Page

Current name

Original Name  -  or also known as:

Main Street

Main Road

The Village Hall

The Mechanics Institute

The Maypole Green

The Concrete

Newhouse Lane

Holme Lane and  Fernhill Lane

Pendle View

Hewitt House Lane

Thompson’s lane

The Edge

Beacon Copy

Station Road

Mill Lane and Top Hill

Church Street

Kirkacre

School Lane

Church Lane

New Pasture Lane

Watery lane

New Pasture Wood

Mason’s Plantation

Quicksands Wood

Knowles Cottages

Knowles Hospital

The Alms Houses

Beckstone Bridge

Holme Bridge

Hartley Green

The Auction Mart

Ribblesdale Estate & Court

Water Board

Riley’s Croft

British Fuels Site

Jubilee Croft

The Corn Mill

Changes to Names of Streets, Roads and Lanes in Long Preston

Click here to also read:

“A History of Long Preston”
Compiled by Chris Moorby

PDF Document - most computers will open this file type automatically.

If yours does not then the Adobe Acrobat Reader
can be downloaded free from  the Adobe website

Tithe Survey of 1841 for Long Preston

Table showing the owner, acreage and field type
for over 800 fields in and around Long Preston, in North Yorkshire


We are pleased to publish this Tithe Table prepared by Tony Stephens.

Click here to open the survey as a PDF document. ( Size 121 KB )


Note: You can use the Search facility in the Adobe PDF Reader
to locate a name or place etc. of interest

Two maps ( as PDF documents ) accompany this Tithe Table:

Map of the whole Long Preston Parish       ( Size  73 KB )

Map showing the Centre of Long Preston  ( Size 218 KB )

These maps show the locations of the fields identified in the survey.

The Adobe PDF reader allows you to zoom in to see the details.

Click here to open a conversion table of the old field dimensions.  
(PDF document. Size 44 KB )


This Tithe Table and Maps are taken from a 64 page booklet, which we published in 2009, by Tony Stephens, that explores in detail the 800 years of our history.

See the Publications Page