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Leighterton
Location within Gloucestershire
OS grid reference ST823909
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Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town TETBURY
Postcode district GL8
Dialling code 01666
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51°37′01″N2°15′25″W / 51.617°N 2.257°W / 51.617; -2.257 Coordinates: 51°37′01″N2°15′25″W / 51.617°N 2.257°W / 51.617; -2.257

Leighterton is a village in rural Gloucestershire off the A46. It sits within the civil parish of Boxwell with Leighterton, 4.25 miles west-southwest of Tetbury, towards the southern end of the Cotswolds AONB. Situated in the Cotswold hills, it is 175 metres above sea level. [1] Historically, it was situated within the hundred of Grumbald's Ash. [2]

The village's parish church, dedicated to St Andrew, is a Grade II* listed building. [3] Originally built in the 13th century and with a porch dating from the 14th century, it underwent a restoration in 1877. [4] The patronage of the church formerly belonged to Walsingham Priory and Gloucester Abbey, later passing to the Huntley family of Boxwell Court. [5] [6]

There are over a dozen listed buildings within the village built with Cotswold limestone, including the 19th century Royal Oak pub and former village hall. [7] [8] [9]

A long barrow, located just outside the village, is listed as a scheduled monument. [10] An example of a Cotswold-Severn megalithic chamber tomb, it is 220 feet in length with burial likely to date between 3800BC and 3625BC. [11] [12]

The manor of Leighterton is recorded as being held by Humphrey de Bohun in 1373 and by Robert Stanshaw in 1473, part of the Stanshaw family of Little Sodbury Manor. [13] [14]

The village is located in the Grumbolds Ash with Avening Cotswold district council ward and the Tetbury Gloucestershire county council electoral division.

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References

  1. ↑ "#GetOutside: do more in the British Outdoors; Leighterton". OS GetOutside. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Bowesden - Boxwell | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, Boxwell with Leighterton - 1154749 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, Boxwell with Leighterton - 1154749 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  5. ↑ Rudge, Thomas (1803). The History of the County of Gloucester. author.
  6. ↑ "Bowesden - Boxwell | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  7. ↑ "ROYAL OAK, Boxwell with Leighterton - 1154710 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "VILLAGE HALL, Boxwell with Leighterton - 1090043 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "Listed Buildings in Boxwell with Leighterton, Cotswold, Gloucestershire". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "West Barrow: a long barrow 200m west of Leighterton School, Boxwell with Leighterton - 1013590 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  11. ↑ "Leighterton Long Barrow". www.archaeological-surveys.co.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  12. ↑ Daniel, Glyn E. (28 March 2013). The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales. Cambridge University Press. p. 78. ISBN   978-1-107-69762-1.
  13. ↑ Rudge, Thomas (1803). The History of the County of Gloucester. author. p. 265.
  14. ↑ Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley (1807). Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts Respecting the County of Gloucester: Formed Into a History, Correcting the Very Erroneous Accounts, and Supplying Numerous Deficiencies in Sir Rob. Atkins, and Subsequent Writers. J. Harris. pp. 1–2.

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