Leigh
Leigh is a village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, 1.5 miles southeast of Ashton Keynes and 2.5 miles west of Cricklade. It is on the edge of the Cotswold Water Park and near to the county border with Gloucestershire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 367 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Leigh, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include All Saints Church, Leigh and RAF Blakehill Farm.
All Saints Church, Leigh
Church
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
All Saints Church was built around 1250 at Leigh, north Wiltshire, England, and was originally on a site half a mile to the north of its current location.
RAF Blakehill Farm
Nature reserve
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Blakehill Farm or more simply RAF Blakehill Farm is a former Royal Air Force station southwest of Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, operational between 1944 and 1952.
Ashton Keynes Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Martin Elliott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashton Keynes Castle was a castle in the village of Ashton Keynes, near to the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire, England. It is also known as Hall's Close, while locals call it The Battlefield. Ashton Keynes Castle is situated 1½ miles northwest of Leigh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashton Keynes and Purton Stoke.
Ashton Keynes
Village
Photo: Richard22, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashton Keynes is a village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England which borders with Gloucestershire. The village is about 5 miles south of Cirencester and 3.5 miles west of Cricklade.
Purton Stoke
Village
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purton Stoke is a small village in north Wiltshire, England, within the civil parish of Purton. The village lies along a side road off the Purton to Cricklade road, approximately 1.5 miles north of Purton village. Purton Stoke is situated 2 miles southeast of Leigh.
Cricklade
Photo: Doowyah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cricklade is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in north Wiltshire, England, midway between Swindon and Cirencester. It is the first downstream town on the Thames. The parish population at the 2011 census was 4,227.
Leigh
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Leigh, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.62744° or 51° 37′ 39″ northLongitude
-1.91286° or 1° 54′ 46″ westPopulation
367Elevation
299 feet (91 metres)Open location code
9C3WJ3GP+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 3245393841OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2644663Wikidata ID
Q6519499
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Leigh” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Leigh”
- Chinese: “Leigh”
- Dutch: “Leigh, Wiltshire”
- Dutch: “Leigh”
- French: “Leigh (Wiltshire)”
- French: “Leigh”
- Irish: “Leigh”
- Italian: “Leigh”
- Japanese: “リー (ウィルトシャー北部)”
- Ladin: “Leigh (Wiltshire)”
- Ladin: “Leigh”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leigh (Wiltshire)”
- Polish: “Leigh (Wiltshire)”
- Polish: “Leigh”
- Swedish: “Leigh, Wiltshire”
- Swedish: “Leigh”
- Turkish: “Leigh, Wiltshire”
- “Leigh”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leigh”. Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.