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{{Short description|Village and civil parish in County Durham, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Use British English|date=July 2022}}

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|official_name= Preston-on-Tees
|local_name = Preston
|civil_parish = Preston-on-Tees (Preston Parish Council)
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|population = 1,689
|population_ref= ([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]])<ref name="2011 census"/>
|unitary_england = [[Borough of Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton-on-Tees]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[County Durham]]
|region= North East England
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|post_town= STOCKTON-ON-TEES 
|postcode_district = TS16, TS18
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|website={{URL|https://www.prestonparishcouncil.co.uk}}
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'''Preston-on-Tees''', locally called Preston, is a village and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the borough of [[Borough of Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton-on-Tees]], [[County Durham]], England. The civil parish population at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] was 1,689.<ref name="2011 census">{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127714&c=TS16+0BL&d=16&e=62&g=6377276&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1437675012418&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|access-date=23 July 2015}}</ref> It is home to [[Preston Hall, Preston-on-Tees|Preston Hall]] and its [[Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees|accompanying public park]].

In the 2011 census, the village was included as a part of [[Yarm]], being on [[A135 road|Yarm Road]] and in a continuous built-up area down to [[Yarm]] High Street.<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=E34004185}}</ref>

==Governance==
The parish originated as a [[township (England)|township]] within the larger [[Stockton-on-Tees]] parish. It became a separate civil parish in 1866. It was included in the Stockton [[poor law union]] and then the Stockton [[rural sanitary district]] until both were abolished in 1894 when the new Stockton Rural District was established.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} 

In 1968 Preston-on-Tees became a part of the [[county borough]] of [[County Borough of Teesside|Teesside]]. It later became part of the non-metropolitan district of Stockton-on-Tees in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10091883&c_id=10001043|title=Preston on Tees Tn/CP through time|website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk|access-date=2016-08-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204035407/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10091883&c_id=10001043|archive-date=2012-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10026659|title=Teesside CB through time|website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk|access-date=2016-08-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514012047/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10026659|archive-date=2011-05-14}}</ref>

== Demographics ==
{{Main|Demographics of Tees Valley}}
According to the [[2001 United Kingdom census|2001 census]], it had a population of 1,748. It has a diverse number of property types, ranging from [[Terraced house|terraced]] rented houses to large [[Single-family detached home|detached]] private dwellings.<ref name="2011 census" />

== Education ==
Preston-on-Tees has one school, [[Eaglescliffe]] Junction School built in 1907. This later became known as Preston Primary School. The parish is also in the catchment for [[Egglescliffe School|Egglescliffe Secondary School]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

==Religious sites==
On Witham Avenue the [[Methodist]] church of Eaglescliffe Trinity Methodist Church and was opened in 1902. There is also a [[Church of England parish church]] named All Saints, which was founded in the early 1900s as a [[Church planting|church plant]] into Preston-on-Tees from the Church of St Thomas, Stockton.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

==References==
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{{Civil parishes in County Durham}}
{{Stockton}}

[[Category:Places in the Tees Valley]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in County Durham]]
[[Category:Borough of Stockton-on-Tees]]


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