Preston Churchyard
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
By car, turn off the A6003 onto Main Street in the north of the village, or Ridlington Road and immediately right onto Main Street in southern end. Turn onto Church Lane, and the entrance to the church is at the end of this road.
Layby parking can be found at the bottom of Church Lane, just after the junction with Main Street.
The nearest bus stop is on Glaston Road, to the south of the village. The R47 and RF1 (Centrebus) both stop here.
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Churchyard
https://www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/preston-church-st-peter-st-paul/
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The small village of Preston is intersected by Uppingham Road/A6003, and is 2 miles north of Uppingham. St Peter and St Paul Church stands in the west of the village. The earliest sections of the church date from around 1150, and the church contains some middle-eastern influence and artifacts. Interestingly, the Cypress trees (Cupressus sempervirens) in the churchyard were grown from seed collected from the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem.
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