Lechlade
Lechlade is a town at the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England, 55 miles south of Birmingham and 68 miles west of London. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable, although there is a right of navigation that continues south-west into Cricklade, in the neighbouring county of Wiltshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 2,470 residents
- Description: town in Lechlade civil parish in Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England
- Also known as: “Lechlade on Thames”, “Lechlade-on-Thames”, and “Lechlade-on-Thames, Gloucestershire”
Photo: Reiner Tegtmeyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Lawrence Church, Lechlade and Halfpenny Bridge.
St Lawrence Church, Lechlade
Church
Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican St Lawrence Church, dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome, is the Church of England parish church of Lechlade in Gloucestershire, England. The church building is Grade I listed and is described with admiration in Simon Jenkins's England's Thousand Best Churches.
Halfpenny Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halfpenny Bridge is a bridge across the River Thames, at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England. The bridge and its toll house are a Grade II listed building.
St John’s Lock
Lock
Photo: Bencherlite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St John's Lock, below the town of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, is the furthest upstream lock on the River Thames in England. The name of the lock derives from a priory that was established nearby in 1250, but which no longer exists.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Faringdon and Buscot.
Little Faringdon
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Faringdon is a village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, about 1 mile north of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire. The 2001 Census recorded its population as 63.
Buscot
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buscot is an English village and civil parish on the River Thames, about 1.5 miles south-east of Lechlade. Buscot was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Two houses there contain notable collections of paintings. Buscot is situated 1½ miles southeast of Lechlade.
Kelmscott
Village
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Kelmscott is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in West Oxfordshire, about 2 miles east of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire. Since 2001 it has absorbed Little Faringdon, which had been a separate civil parish. Kelmscott is situated 2½ miles east of Lechlade.
Lechlade
- Category: locality
- Location: Lechlade, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.69449° or 51° 41′ 40″ northLongitude
-1.69221° or 1° 41′ 32″ westPopulation
2,470Elevation
259 feet (79 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LECOpen location code
9C3WM8V5+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 14776470OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Lechlade” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Basque: “Lechlade”
- Cebuano: “Lechlade on Thames”
- Cebuano: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Chinese: “莱奇莱德”
- Chinese: “萊奇萊德”
- Dutch: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Dutch: “Lechlade”
- French: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- French: “Lechlade”
- German: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- German: “Lechlade”
- Irish: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Irish: “Lechlade”
- Italian: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Italian: “Lechlade”
- Japanese: “レッチレード”
- Ladin: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Latin: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Latin: “Lechlade”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lechlade”
- Persian: “لچلید”
- Polish: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Romanian: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Romanian: “Lechlade”
- Slovenian: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- South Azerbaijani: “لچلید”
- Spanish: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Swedish: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Turkish: “Lechlade”
- Volapük: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Volapük: “Lechlade”
- Welsh: “Lechlade-on-Thames”
- Welsh: “Lechlade”
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