Traditional county: Northumberland · Region: North East
Explore Preston, Northumberland with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Preston map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Preston, Northumberland, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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Drag the map to pan to any area of Northumberland or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Preston and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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| Place | Preston |
| Traditional County | Northumberland |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 55.523534 |
| Longitude | -1.707329 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Preston reveals itself through the low, insistent light of the Northumbrian coast, where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 7.7 miles north of Alnwick (from Alnwick: bearing 360°T, OS grid NU 185 255), and is situated east of Ellingham village. A solitary, crenellated silhouette defines the horizon here, as Preston Tower commands the immediate landscape with a stoic, defensive gravity that has outlasted centuries of border unrest. Beyond the stone, the land stretches toward the rising bulk of Chat Hill, where the air grows thin and sharp against the cheek. The fields surrounding Preston hold the silence of a long agricultural patience, broken only by the thin, metallic call of birds circling the nearby heights. Water drains quietly toward the coast, shaping the hidden folds of the terrain into a mosaic of shadowed grasses and exposed rock. History here is not a narrative but a physical weight, pressed into the very architecture of the limestone walls that mark the boundaries of the fields. To walk these paths is to feel the sudden, quiet pressure of a horizon that refuses to be tamed by the passing of modern seasons.
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Explore Preston, Northumberland, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 55.523534, -1.707329. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |