Preston

village and civil parish south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England
Place village Q1616487
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Preston

Summary

Preston is a village[1]. Preston ranks in the top 0.45% of village entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month, #228 of 50,837).[2]

Key Facts

  • Preston is located in North Hertfordshire[3].
  • Preston is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Preston's instance of is recorded as village[5].
  • Preston's instance of is recorded as civil parish[6].
  • Preston's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 159703763[7].
  • Preston's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nb2008001367[8].
  • Preston's postal code is recorded as SG4[9].
  • Preston's Commons category is recorded as Preston, Hertfordshire[10].
  • Preston's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 3645142[11].
  • Preston's local dialing code is recorded as 01462[12].
  • Preston's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.909014, 'lon': -0.285301}[13].
  • Preston's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01smd0[14].
  • Preston's GSS code is recorded as E04004790[15].
  • Preston's MusicBrainz area ID is recorded as a69f58f1-7179-4b37-9678-8c6188c3bce3[16].
  • Preston's population is recorded as {'amount': '+425'}[17].
  • Preston's population is recorded as {'amount': '+481'}[18].
  • Preston's population is recorded as {'amount': '+420'}[19].
  • Preston's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2639917[20].
  • Preston's GeoNames ID is recorded as 7295267[21].
  • Preston's BBC Things ID is recorded as 68152045-af4a-4541-a999-a71725cdf402[22].
  • Preston's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -2605725[23].
  • Preston's TOID is recorded as 7000000000003954[24].
  • Preston's TOID is recorded as 4000000074573968[25].
  • Preston's Vision of Britain unit ID is recorded as 10148674[26].
  • Preston's Vision of Britain place ID is recorded as 4383[27].

Body

Geography

Preston is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. Preston is located in North Hertfordshire[3].

Physical Characteristics

Population counts include {'amount': '+425'}[17], {'amount': '+481'}[18], and {'amount': '+420'}[19].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include village[5] and civil parish[6].

Why It Matters

Preston ranks in the top 0.45% of village entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month, #228 of 50,837).[2] Preston has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . GSS coding system. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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