Leckhampton, Gloucestershire

Description
Leckhampton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands under the Cotswolds, 2 1/2 miles S of Cheltenham, was oncea market-town, has a station on the Banburyand Cheltenham branch of the G.W.B. and a post and money order office under Cheltenham; telegraph office, Moorend. The parish contains also outskirts of Cheltenham, and is partly included in that parliamentary borough. Acreage, 1614; population, 3363. The manor belonged to the Despencers, passed to the Giffards, the Norwoods, and the Tryes. Leckhampton Hill is a steep and curious member of the Cotswolds. It has an altitude of 979 feet, comprising 749 of lias formations, and 230 of inferior oolites; includes in the latter a fossiliferous freestone quarried for building, and commands at the summit a most exquisite view. Leckhampton Court is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £720 with residence. The church is of the 15th century, was repaired and enlarged in 1866, comprises nave, aisles, chancel, and porch, with tower and spire, and contains a Norman font and recumbent effigies of Sir John Giffard and his wife, of the time of Edward III. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 810. The ecclesiastical parish of St Philip and St James was constituted in 1869. Population, 2553. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £400. The church is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, porch, and tower.