Leckhampstead
Leckhampstead is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England in the North Wessex Downs. A road and boundary stone in Leckhampstead, the Hangman's Stone and Hangman's Stone Lane, are named after a tale of a man who roped and carried a stolen sheep from a farm in Leckhampstead around his neck, but which strangled him after he stopped and slept.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: MalcolmGould, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Village with 372 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Berkshire, UK
- Also known as: “Leckhampstead, Berkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St James and Church of St Barnabas.
RAF Welford
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Welford or more simply RAF Welford is an active Royal Air Force station in Berkshire, England. The station lies approximately 6 miles northwest of Newbury, and about 50 miles west of London. RAF Welford is situated 1½ miles southwest of Leckhampstead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peasemore and Chaddleworth.
Peasemore
Village
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peasemore is a village and civil parish in the English ceremonial and historic county of Berkshire in the West Berkshire unitary authority area, west of the A34 road and north of the town of Newbury.
Chaddleworth
Village
Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chaddleworth is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. Chaddleworth is situated 1½ miles west of Leckhampstead.
Brightwalton
Village
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brightwalton is a village and civil parish in the Berkshire Downs centred 7 miles NNW of Newbury in West Berkshire. Brightwalton is situated 2 miles north of Leckhampstead.
Leckhampstead
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Leckhampstead, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.48483° or 51° 29′ 5″ northLongitude
-1.36885° or 1° 22′ 8″ westPopulation
372Elevation
486 feet (148 metres)Open location code
9C3WFJMJ+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 268599769OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12264990Wikidata ID
Q2014746
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Leckhampstead” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لكهمبستيد”
- Basque: “Leckhampstead (Berkshire)”
- Basque: “Leckhampstead”
- Cebuano: “Leckhampstead (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Leckhampstead”
- Chinese: “Leckhampstead”
- Dutch: “Leckhampstead”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لكهمبستيد”
- French: “Leckhampstead”
- Irish: “Leckhampstead”
- Kurdish: “Leckhampstead, Berkshire”
- Kurdish: “Leckhampstead”
- Ladin: “Leckhampstead (Berkshire)”
- Ladin: “Leckhampstead”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leckhampstead (Berkshire)”
- Persian: “لکهمپستد، بارکشر”
- Polish: “Leckhampstead”
- Swedish: “Leckhampstead, Berkshire”
- Swedish: “Leckhampstead”
- Turkish: “Leckhampstead, Berkshire”
- Welsh: “Leckhampstead, Berkshire”
- Welsh: “Leckhampstead”
- “Leckhampstead”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thicket Methodist Chapel and Firs Farm Airstrip.
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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 “Leckhampstead”. Photo: MalcolmGould, CC BY 3.0.