Weeton, Lancashire
| Weeton with Preese | |
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 Weeton with Preese
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| Weeton with Preese shown within Lancashire | |
| Population | 656 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SD3834 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BLACKPOOL, PRESTON |
| Postcode district | FY4, PR4 |
| Dialling code | 01253 |
| Police | Lancashire |
| Fire | Lancashire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
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Weeton with Preese is a civil parish in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England, beside the Blackpool to Preston railway line and the M55 motorway, just east of Blackpool and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north west of Kirkham. It contains the village of Weeton.
The area is mostly rural. Weeton is in the Fylde parliamentary constituency and is in the Staining and Weeton electoral ward.
The parish covers an area of 2,876 acres (11.64 km2) east of Blackpool, and has a population of 1,096, decreasing to 656 at the 2011 census. Preese — which has recognition in the official name — has no separate measurement while Mythop (or less commonly Mythorp) has its area recorded as 677 acres (2.74 km2). Mythop, not recognised in the parish name, is divided from Weeton by mossland and the track of the Preston to Blackpool railway.
In the east, Weeton occupies most of the southern half of the parish, with Mythop in the south western corner, the northern half containing Preese on the west and Swarbrick on the east. Watson argues that these sub-manors — each with its own hall — may be based on the ancient pre-Conquest quarterland divisions characteristic of the Irish Sea cultural basin of Celtic North Wales and the Isle of Man. Each of the four manors occupies an area of slightly higher ground, each divided from the others by depressions: Weeton is 112 feet (34 m) above sea level, Swarbrick and Preese 100 feet (30 m) and Mythop 50 feet (15 m).
In an unpublished article, Watson (1994) "chases the shadows left on the ground" by suggesting that "the Manx Balla or Treen and the Welsh Tref offer a model for the Lancastrian township with its fourfold manorial division of approximately five thousand acres of land".
Although the modern day Weeton with Preese is just over half this size, Watson argues that "the documentary facts support the still discernible evidence of the quarterland skeletal frame of the townships surviving from the days of the comital estates. The evidence is further bolstered by the existence of four principal houses in most of the lowland and non-vaccary townships in the Amounderness Hundred".
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