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Prees

Prees is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales.

Prees
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The place

Prees is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Its name is Celtic and means "brushwood".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Prees

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Mary's Church, Edstaston

    St Mary's Church is in the village of Edstaston, in the civil parish of Wem Rural, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wem and Whitchurch, the archdeaconry of Salop, and the diocese of Lichfield.

    3.8 km · church in Edstaston, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Soulton Hall

    Soulton Hall is a Tudor country house located near Wem, in Shropshire, England. The manor is associated with William Shakespeare and his play As You Like It, and the existing hall was constructed between 1556 and 1560 by Sir Rowland Hill, a prominent statesman, polymath, and philanthropist who is remembered as the "First Protestant Lord Mayor of London" serving in 1549-50.

    3.3 km · country house hotel in Wem Rural, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Prees

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · Birmingham (BHX), 79 km
Stations
Prees railway station, 1.6 km
  • Liverpool → Prees
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Prees
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Prees
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £8–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Prees

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Prees. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    235 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    263 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    338 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    375 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    398 km

If you know how people move in Prees – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Prees

Prees is 60 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Whixallvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Prees Higher Heathsettlement in Shropshire, England2.9 km
  • Fauls Greenvillage in Shropshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Wem Ruralcivil parish in Shropshire, UK3 km
  • Cotonvillage in Wem Rural, Shropshire, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Quina Brookvillage in Shropshire, United Kingdom3 km