Priestville, Nova Scotia
- Official Name: Priestville
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Populated Place
- Geographic Feature Type: Community
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.571996, -62.624719
- NTS Map Number: 011E10
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas: Section 13
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map Number: NS Land Grant map 093
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map Number: 1045550062600 (New Glasgow)
Priestville is community located south east of News Glasgow. It may have been so named because of a priest who lived here.
Settlement in this area probably began as a result of the establishment of Standard Clay Products Ltd. in the early twentieth century.
Population in 1956 was 319.
Population in 2016 was 163.
Population in 2021 was 157.
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Places of Nova Scotia – C. Bruce Fergusson / Statistics Canada]
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