PRESTON is a parish and village situated on the river Wye, about 9 miles W. of Hereford, 12 E. of Hay, and 6 S. of Weobley; is in Webtree hundred, Weobley union, Bredwardine petty sessional division, Madley polling district, and Hereford county court district. The population in 1861 was 277; in 1871, 284; inhabited houses, 62; families or separate occupiers, 66; area of parish, 1,368a. 2r. 8p.; annual rateable value, £1,983. The Dean and Chapter of Hereford are lords of the manor, and Robert Henry Lee-Warner, Esq., of Tyberton court, is the principal landowner. Mr. Charles Matthews and Mr. John Davis are also landowners here. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, clay and sandstone; chief produce, wheat, barley, beans, roots, &c. Preston is in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford; living, a vicarage, annexed to that of Blakemere; joint value, £166, with 5¼ acres of glebe, also £98 from land in other parishes; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford; vicar, Rev. Andrew Pope, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1873. A new vicarage house has been recently erected. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is an ancient edifice in the Early English style of architecture, with nave, chancel, porch, and tower containing four bells. It is in a very dilapidated condition, but is about to be restored. The earliest register is dated 1574. A national school was erected a few years since for the parishes of Preston-upon-Wye and Blakemere. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here erected in 1862, and the Baptists one erected in 1866. A Sunday school is held in connection with the church.