Prees

In the third week of June, 1915, the 17th H.L.I. changed quarters from the flat stifling district of Prees-Heath to the breezy upland valley of Wensleydale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

Shropshire, on the morning of the 14th May, and the men marched some three miles south to the great hut-city on Prees Heath.

The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

Similarly Preece, Prees, usually for Price, may sometimes be for des

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

Family, I must not talk of going elsewhere -- even to Prees -- where John is always good enough to be asking me: even in a Letter To day received.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846

Elected camp leader, he set about organising Prees Heath into a hygienic and humane regime.

The Guardian World News Robert McCrum 2011

Now in his late 30s, he was asking the questions about the nature of existence he had first confronted on Prees Heath.

The Guardian World News Robert McCrum 2011

His experience of Prees Heath, which actually lasted no more than a few months in 1940, shaped Schumacher's understanding of society.

The Guardian World News Robert McCrum 2011

Prees Heath, he discovered, was a microcosm of society: the oppression and exploitation of the imprisoned many by the privileged few.

The Guardian World News Robert McCrum 2011

When, shortly after moving to Eydon, the policeman's knock came at the cottage door, he was taken off to join about 1,400 prisoners under canvas in a hastily built camp on Prees Heath, on the Shropshire-Wales border, where every kind of refugee was herded together under chaotic conditions.

The Guardian World News Robert McCrum 2011

People in Prees fear the plan could sound a death knell for the village.

Shropshire Star 2009