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Prestonpans

small fishing town situated to the east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the unitary council area of East Lothian
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Prestonpans

Summary

Prestonpans is a town[1]. Prestonpans ranks in the top 4% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (677 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Prestonpans is located in East Lothian[3].
  • Prestonpans is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Prestonpans's instance of is recorded as town[5].
  • Prestonpans's postal code is recorded as EH32[6].
  • Prestonpans's Commons category is recorded as Prestonpans[7].
  • Prestonpans's located in time zone is recorded as UTC±00:00[8].
  • Prestonpans's OS grid reference is recorded as NT401745[9].
  • Prestonpans's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 55.9597, 'lon': -2.961}[10].
  • Prestonpans's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prestonpans[11].
  • Prestonpans has a population of {'amount': '+10410'}[12].
  • Prestonpans's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Prestonpans's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • Prestonpans's category for people born here is recorded as Category:Births in Prestonpans[15].
  • Prestonpans's historic county is recorded as East Lothian[16].

Body

Geography

Prestonpans is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. Prestonpans is located in East Lothian[3].

Physical Characteristics

Prestonpans has a population of {'amount': '+10410'}[12].

Designation and Status

Prestonpans's instance of is recorded as town[5].

Why It Matters

Prestonpans ranks in the top 4% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (677 views/month).[2] Prestonpans has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → East Lothian, Prestonpans, East Lothian +1
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 55.9597, 'lon': -2.961}
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    Population → {'amount': '+10410'}
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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