LeckhamptonExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries LECKHAMPTON, a parish in the hundred of CHELTENHAM, county of GLOUCESTER, 2miles (S. by W.) from Cheltenham, containing 318 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £18. 13. 4., and in the patronage of C.N. Trye, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. A branch of the Gloucester and Cheltenham railway passes through this parish to the Crippets on the south. |
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