The Township of Weeton with Preese in the County of -- Lancashire --

	The Green, Weeton with Preese Photograph supplied by and © of Brian Young

	Village Sign, Weeton with Preese Photograph supplied by and © of Brian Young

	The Eagle and Child, Weeton with Preese Photograph supplied by and © of Brian Young

WEETON, a township and a chapelry in Kirkham parish, Lancashire. The township lies adjacent to the Preston and Wyre railway, 3½ miles NW by W of Kirkham; bears the name of W.-with-Preese; and has a fair on Trinity Tuesday. Acres, 2,876. Real property, £3,978. Pop., 465. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby. The chapelry was constituted in 1843; and its Post town is Kirkham, under Preston. Pop., 1,017. Houses, 194. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £110 Patron, the Vicar of Kirkham. The church was built in 1846. There is a national school.

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)