Prescot

Prescot is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. Generally part of Lancashire, it lies around 8 miles toward the east of Liverpool downtown area. At the 2001 Census, the common area populace was 11,184. The populace of the bigger Prescot East and West wards at the 2011 registration totalled 14,139. Prescot imprints the start of the A58 street which goes through to Wetherby, West Yorkshire. The town is served by Prescot railroad station and Eccleston Park rail route station.

Prescot's name is accepted to be gotten from the Anglo-Saxon preost "ministerbed", which means a cabin or little house claimed or possessed by a cleric, a "minister bungalow". In the 14th century, William Dacre, second Baron Dacre, got a contract for the holding of a three-day advertise and moveable reasonable at Prescot, to start on the Wednesday following Corpus Christi. From the mid 1590s to 1609, Prescot was home to the Prescot Playhouse, a reason assembled Shakespearean theater, likely situated on Eccleston Street.