Preston or Priest's Town

We started off our tour in Preston where it was way colder than I imagined. Peter Fagg (our guide) took us to an exhibit of what Preston looked like in 1827. I learned how the cotton industry was the main industry at the time. Lancaster had the largest cotton factory in all of England. It consisted of 42 mills in working operation. A large majority of the first converts worked in these Mills. Probably one of the coolest things we saw was the Oblique where the first Missionaries of the Church preached, including President Gordon B. Hinckley. It was so cool to see that and picture President Hinckley standing there in 1933 as a scared little boy preaching to the town of Preston, England.
We walked by the dental office of Brigham young and Joseph Smith. Their dentist was one of the first to record the First Vision and recorded that Jesus Christ had blue eyes and that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father were dressed in white robes.
On Wilfred Street lies the house where the first group of missionaries lived when they first arrived in England. This is the house where the evil spirits appeared. After Joseph Smith learned of this he said that he knew the Gospel was about to take root.
Avenham Park is not only beautiful but it is a very important part of England’s church history. The Japanese gardens were shown of Sister Hinckley walking in them. The video played at her funeral. The park is also home to the Ribble River where the 8 saints were baptized during the first mission. Thousands gathered to watch these new members of the church be baptized.
The Church received the nickname the dippers for the way they baptized. I really liked the oak tree that was a dedication to all missionaries that have served, are serving and that will ever serve.
We also learned about Wilfred Woodruff's fly-fished and is said to have made fly fishing large in the West.
We visited the Church of St. Wilfred. The minister of the Church at the time of Heber C. Kimball’s mission appeared in Kimball’s dream. This dream was about the good field that was Britain and the Church of England which was the lost crop. The bull stomping on the good crop represented the Church of England.