[3] Prenton appears as Prestune in the Domesday Book of 1086,[4] with the name Pren-ton persisting despite the Norman-French accented spelling.

Note that Landican (one mile distant from Prenton) retained its Welsh/British name even through Anglian and subsequent Norse occupation.

[10] In August 1940, during the Second World War, a house maid working in Prenton became the first fatality of a bombing raid on the Merseyside area.

[14] By 1928 local government responsibility for Prenton changed from Wirral Rural District to the County Borough of Birkenhead.

[15] On 1 April 1974, local government reorganisation in England and Wales resulted in most of the Wirral Peninsula, including Prenton, transfer from Cheshire to the nascent county of Merseyside.

Prenton is situated on the eastern side of the Wirral Peninsula, about 2.5 km (1.6 mi) west of the River Mersey at Tranmere Oil Terminal.

Housing is mostly private, and ranges from terraced properties nearer Birkenhead, to large detached villas in the Mountwood conservation area.

The post-war housing development, the Mount Estate, is in the south east of Prenton near to the boundary with Higher Bebington.

[21] The original inn, with a licence dating back to at least 1879 was replaced at the end of the nineteenth century with the current, much larger building.

Several nearby brewery-owned houses, built at the same time and in the same architectural style, were demolished when Woodchurch Road was widened.

It was rebuilt due to bomb damage sustained in the May Blitz and is now inscribed with the names of soldiers who died in both World Wars.