Gallery: PRESTON UPON THE WEALD MOORS

Notable for the spectacular Georgian almshouse splendour of Preston Hospital, this former canalside village sits on a peninsula above what was known for many centuries as the Rough Moor. A huge expanse of peatland and scrub where locals could graze cattle and collect timber, it once stretched for nearly six miles across the Weald Moors

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