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Preston on the Hill history
No evidence has been found in Preston-on-the-Hill of Neolithic, Bronze Age or Iron Age man having a settlement or even a fortification there. Roman road from their settlement at Wilderspool near Warrington to the city of Chester (Deva Victrix) ran through the village. Preston is not mentioned directly in the Domesday Book of AD1086 but it was part of the lands held by William fitz Nigel, Baron of Halton.
Religion
The village of Preston-on-the-Hill is in the ecclesiastical parish of All Saints Daresbury. The first reference to a religious house in the village is of a Meeting House for the Methodists in 1764. It was at this house that John Wesley preached on two occasions, on 7 April 1781 and 12 May 1783.
Education
Board schools came into being following the Education Act of 1870. In 1892 the average attendance was 27, with Miss Stormont as mistress.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal opened the Bridgewater Canal in 1776. The canal was linked with the Trent & Mersey Canal at a point just 11 yards inside the north end of the Preston Brook tunnel. Many trans-shipment warehouses were soon being built and the area came into being as a very busy transport centre.
Developments
The M56 motorway was officially opened on 23 September 1971. Sumner’s Farm and its outbuildings on Windmill Lane were converted to residential in 2005. Windmill Cottage and farm was significantly redeveloped in 2020 with two barn conversions, extension and refurbishment of windmill cottage farm.
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