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Prescot

PLACENAME: Presecota (first mentioned 1178) The priest's cottage, parsonage. From Old English pres and cote. Prestecote 1220; Prestekot 1236.

photo of a red brick church with spire

St Mary's Church at Prescot sits within a curvelinear churchyard, suggesting that there may have been a church on the site before 1066.

Photograph © S Parish.

workers and machinery in watch company's tool room

The Lancashire Watch Company (1892) was a mechanized watch factory, which used a locomotive boiler to power machinery.

Photograph courtesy of Knowsley Library Service.

illustration of pottery finds

21-23 Eccleston Street was recorded and excavated in 1982. Finds on the site included Medieval pottery.

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