Preshute

Preshute
Above Preshute
Above Preshute
Coordinates: 51°25′59″N 1°46′08″W / 51.433°N 1.769°W / 51.433; -1.769
CountryEngland
CountyWiltshire
Population
 (2011)
 • Total193
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Preshute is a civil parish immediately west and northwest of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. Unusually for a Wiltshire parish, it does not take its name from any town or village. The population at the 2011 census was 193.[1]

The River Kennet and the A4 road cross the parish; the boundary between Marlborough and Preshute is beyond Manton, about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) along the A4 from the centre of Marlborough.

The parish is almost entirely downland and farmland. The settlements are Manton House (with Manton Stables, where racehorses are trained) and the hamlet of Clatford.

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 April 2015.