Lechlade
Lechlade is a locality in Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England. Lechlade is situated nearby to the locality Little London, as well as near the hamlet Inglesham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include St John’s Lock and St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham.
St John’s Lock
Lock
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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.
St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham
Church
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St John the Baptist Church in Inglesham, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, has Anglo-Saxon origins but most of the current structure was built around 1205.
St Lawrence Church, Lechlade
Church
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fairford and Lechlade.
Fairford
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fairford is in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Fairford town originated as a river-crossing settlement on the River Coln, the ancient market town is dominated by the beautifully proportioned 'wool' church of St Mary.
Lechlade
Town
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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.
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
- Type: Locality
- Location: Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.701° or 51° 42′ 4″ northLongitude
-1.6979° or 1° 41′ 52″ westElevation
249 feet (76 metres)Open location code
9C3WP822+9RGeoNames ID
7293583
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