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Preston, city and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Lancashire, southwestern England. It is located at the lowest bridging point of the River Ribble estuary before it flows into the Irish Sea. The borough encompasses a mostly rural area north of the city, while the city extends across the River Ribble into the neighbouring borough of South Ribble.

The town of Preston grew near the site of a Roman fort at Walton-le-Dale, on a ridge overlooking the river. Its location on a major north-south route established it as a market center in the Middle Ages, and the first of 14 charters was granted about 1179. This charter also granted a merchant guild, which has met regularly ever since. By the Tudor period (beginning in the late 15th century) Preston was a great interregional market center lying at the focus of the road system. Domestic industry, especially woolen and linen weaving, grew with the town’s increasing importance. During the English Civil Wars (1642–51) Preston, the Lancashire Royalist headquarters, was besieged and captured, and the fortifications were destroyed. Royalist forces were defeated by the Parliamentary forces of Oliver Cromwell at Preston in 1648. Further stimulus to growth came in 1777, when the first cotton-spinning mill was built in Moor Lane. By 1835 there were 40 factories, mainly spinning, producing 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of cotton yarn weekly. Improved port facilities after 1843 established a trade in Lancashire coal, cotton goods, and raw materials.

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