Little Faringdon

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St John’s Lock and St Matthew’s Church, Langford.

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 Matthew’s Church, Langford

Church

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The Parish Church of Saint Matthew, Langford is the Church of England parish church of Langford, a village in West Oxfordshire about 3 miles northeast of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire.

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 Lechlade and Kelmscott.

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.

Langford

Village

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Langford is a village and civil parish in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 3 miles northeast of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 374.

Little Faringdon

Type: Locality
Location: West Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.7104° or 51° 42′ 37″ north

Longitude

-1.6707° or 1° 40′ 15″ west

Elevation

266 feet (81 metres)

Open location code

9C3WP86H+5P

GeoNames ID

7297850

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