Prescot

Also known as Prescot, Merseyside

Prescot is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It lies about to the east of Liverpool city centre. At the 2001 Census, the civil parish population was 11,184 (5,265 males, 5,919 females). The population of the larger Prescot East and West wards at the 2011 census totalled 14,139. Prescot marks the beginning of the A58 road which runs through to Wetherby, near Leeds in West Yorkshire. The town is served by Prescot railway station and Eccleston Park railway station in neighbouring Eccleston.

Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.type: Town
UK place.official_name: Prescot
UK place.static_image_name: St Mary's Church, Prescot.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: St Mary's Church, Prescot
UK place.population: 11,184
UK place.population_ref: (2001 Census)
UK place.metropolitan_borough: Knowsley
UK place.civil_parish: Prescot
UK place.metropolitan_county: Merseyside
UK place.region: North West England
UK place.constituency_westminster: Knowsley
UK place.constituency_westminster1: St Helens South and Whiston
UK place.post_town: PRESCOT
UK place.postcode_district: L34/L35
UK place.postcode_area: L
UK place.dial_code: 0151
UK place.os_grid_reference: SJ4692

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Wikidata facts

Population: 11326
Image: St Mary's Church, Prescot.jpg
Dialing code: 0151

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OS grid reference: SJ4692
Commons category: Prescot
P8168: Rollainville
P12749: Josef Ressel

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History
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Churches
Tourism, leisure and places of interest
Sport
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Historic estates
Notable residents
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==History== Prescot's name is believed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon prēost "priest" + cot "cot", meaning a cottage or small house owned or inhabited by a priest, a "priest-cottage". (ME prest, preste, priest, OE prēost, LL presbyter, Gk πρεσβύτερος presbýteros "elder, priest")