--- title: "Prees – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Prees, United Kingdom: Prees is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Nearby: St Mary's Church…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/prees" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/prees.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/2012-09-12_16-40-09-PA00104689.jpg/1920px-2012-09-12_16-40-09-PA00104689.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Shropshire, England · United Kingdom # Prees Prees is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. ![Prees](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/2012-09-12_16-40-09-PA00104689.jpg/1920px-2012-09-12_16-40-09-PA00104689.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Prees · Katrouchka 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prees), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Edstaston) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulton_Hall) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/liverpool-to-prees) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Prees) - Manchester, Greater Manchester → Prees 67 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manchester-greater-manchester-to-prees) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manchester%2C+Greater+Manchester&to=Prees) - Birmingham, West Midlands → Prees 71 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-prees) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Prees) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Prees) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 235 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 263 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 338 km 4. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 375 km 5. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 398 km If you know how people move in Prees – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cprees&title=Prees&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fprees), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Prees Prees is 60 km from [Birkenhead](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/birkenhead), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Whixall](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whixall) village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK 3.8 km - [Prees Higher Heath](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/prees-higher-heath) settlement in Shropshire, England 2.9 km - [Fauls Green](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fauls-green) village in Shropshire, England, UK 3.9 km - [Wem Rural](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wem-rural) civil parish in Shropshire, UK 3 km - [Coton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coton) village in Wem Rural, Shropshire, United Kingdom 2.5 km - [Quina Brook](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/quina-brook) village in Shropshire, United Kingdom 3 km [The place page for Prees](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/prees) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/prees, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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