Roughgrounds Lake

Places of Interest

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.

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.

Places in the Area

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

Photo: Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

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