We could not match "PREES" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 20 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "PREES" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "PREES":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Calverhall	Shropshire	Calverhall , eccl. dist., Prees par., N. Shropshire 4½ miles SE. of Whitchurch, pop. 248.	Bartholomew
  CALVERHALL, or Corra	Shropshire	Prees parish, Salop; 3¾ miles ENE of Prees r. station, and 4¾ SE of Whitchurch. Post Town, Prees	Imperial
  DARLISTON	Shropshire	DARLISTON , a township in Prees parish, Salop; on the river Tern, 5½ miles NE of Wem. Pop., 278.	Imperial
  Doune Lodge	Perthshire	pree'd the mou' of Miss Robina Edmondstone. From the Edmondstones it has come to the Earls of Moray, the tenth	Groome
  Fauls	Shropshire	Fauls , eccl. dist., Prees par., N. Shropshire, pop. 560.	Bartholomew
  FAULS	Shropshire	Prees parish, Salop; near the Prees station of the Crewe and Shrewsbury railway, 4¼ miles NE of Wem. It was constituted	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Prees; and the p. curacies of Ashe, Calverhall, Fauls, Tilstock, and Whixall. The deanery of Wrockwardine contains the rectories of Eyton	Imperial
  MICKLE Y	Shropshire	MICKLE Y , a township in Prees parish, Salop; near the river Tern, 4¼ miles WSW of Market-Drayton. Pop., 36.	Imperial
  MILLENHEATH	Shropshire	MILLENHEATH , a township in Prees parish, Salop; on the river Tern, 4¼ miles S E of Whitchurch.	Imperial
  Moffat	Dumfries Shire Lanarkshire	pree, Three blither hearts that lee-lang night Ye wadna find in Christendee. And here he composed, in addition to many	Groome
  Prees	Shropshire	Prees , par. and vil. with ry. sta., Shropshire - par. (containing Calverhall, Fauls, and Whixall ecol. dists.), 13,743 ac., pop. 3068; vil., 4½ miles	Bartholomew
  PREES	Shropshire	PREES , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wem district, Salop. The village stands 1¼ mile E of the Crewe	Imperial
  Sandford	Shropshire	Sandford , vil., Prees par., Shropshire, 5 miles W. of Market Drayton; in vicinity is the seat of Sandford Hall .	Bartholomew
  SANDFORD	Shropshire	SANDFORD , a township in Prees parish, Salop; 5½ miles W of Market-Drayton. Pop., 76.	Imperial
  STEEL	Shropshire	STEEL , a township in Prees parish, Salop; 5½ miles NE of Wem.	Imperial
  TILSTOCK	Shropshire	Prees parishes, Salop; 2½ miles S of Whitchurch r. station. It has a post-office under Whitchurch. Pop., 656. Houses	Imperial
  WEM	Shropshire	Prees sub-district, and formerly included also Whitchurch and Malpas sub-districts. Acres of the present district, 51,197; of the former	Imperial
  Whixall	Shropshire	Whixall , eccl. dist. and vil., Prees par., Shropshire - dist., pop. 1059; vil., 4 miles N. of Wem; P.O., called Wixhall .	Bartholomew
  WHIXHALL	Shropshire	Prees parish, Salop; 1½ mile W by N of Prees r. station, and 4 N by E of Wem. It has a post	Imperial
  WILLASTON	Shropshire	WILLASTON , a township in Prees parish, Salop; 5½ miles WNW of Market-Drayton.	Imperial

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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