Preston or Preston-next-Wingham is a civil parish and village in the valley of the Little Stour in the Dover District of Kent, England.

The village stands on a rising-ground, above the marshes of the Little Stour river, 1½mile S E of Grove-Ferry r. station, and 6¾ E N E of Canterbury; bears the name of Preston-street, and has a postal pillar-box under Wingham".

It retains a primary school, a local pub, a butchers, a village shop, a livery yard and a garden nursery with a restaurant inside.

It used to hold an annual steam rally and ploughing matches at Preston Court, which attracted people from all across the Kent area.

In the Domesday Book, Preston is recorded as having about 60 households, which was quite a sizeable number in relation to the British Isles population at the time.

[5] St Mildred's was founded in 700 AD, and it still has evidence of stonework from the Saxon age, similarly to Elmstone Church.

It was also restored in 1857 by a Gothic Revival architect called William White, who put in dormer windows to replace the aisle ones.

[12]The 1831 census that took occupation into consideration split Preston into 13 employers and professionals, 28 middling sorts, 99 labourers and servants and 0 others.