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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Preston Junction like this:
PRESTON-JUNCTION, a railway station on the S Eborder of Durham; on the North eastern system, at the meeting-point of the lines from Northallerton, Middlesborough, Stockton, and Darlington, 1 mile N of Yarm.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Preston Junction by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Preston on Tees | 0 | 2 |
Ingleby Barwick | 0 | 2 |
Egglescliffe | 0 | 3 |
Elton | 0 | 2 |
Yarm | 5 | 3 |
Aislaby | 0 | 2 |
East Hartburn | 0 | 2 |
Long Newton | 0 | 3 |
Thornaby on Tees | 0 | 2 |
South Stockton | 0 | 2 |
Stainton | 0 | 2 |
Castle Leavington | 0 | 2 |
Maltby | 0 | 2 |
Stockton on Tees | 16 | 8 |
Kirk Leavington | 0 | 3 |
Newsham | 0 | 2 |
Hilton | 0 | 2 |
Low Worsall | 0 | 2 |
Middleton St George | 0 | 4 |
West Acklam | 0 | 3 |