Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Prestuna 1154×89 FPD

• Preston' 1183 BB c.1320 DX201/3 c.1250 Hatf 1382 Lang 1418

• Preston' juxta Stokton' 1260 Gre

• Prestona 1183 BB c.1382

• Preston 1259×60 GD 1296 GD 1350,1382 Rot 1673 DX487/1/107 1720–1 HC/CB 1723×4 Hud

• Preston on Teise 1357,1361–2 IPM

• Preston on Teyse 1360,1387 IPM

• Preston on Tees 1381 IPM 1439,1475×6 ib

• Preston on Tese 1388etfreqto1505 IPM

• Preston on Tesse

• Preston on Teese 1442,1448 IPM

• Preston on Tease 1515etfreqto1636×7 IPM 1610 GD

• Preston-upon-Teas 1402 NbDu

• Preston super These 1429 Riev

• Preston upon Tees 1474 IPM

• Preston upon Tese 1496–1497,1496 IPM

• Preston upon Tease 1737 NRCbox11/18

• Priston on Tees 1510 IPM

• Priston upon Tease 1527 ib

Etymology

'The priest estate', OE  prēost, tūn. There is no trace of spellings with medial -e - indicating the genitive pl. prēosta 'of the priests' and this is probably, therefore, the compound prēost-tūn.