Leckhampstead, Berkshire Family History Guide
Leckhampstead is a chapelry of Chieveley with Winterbourne and Oare Ancient Parish in Berkshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1754
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LECKHAMPSTEAD, a chapelry, with a village, in Chieveley parish, Berks; 3 miles NW of Chieveley village, and 7¼ NNW of Newbury r. station. Post town, Chieveley, under Newbury. Real property, £2,312. Pop., 385. Houses, 86. The property is much subdivided. The manor was given, by Edward Il., to Piers Gaveston.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Chieveley, in the diocese of Oxford. The old church stood about a mile from the village. The new church stands in the centre of the village; is of recent erection, in the pointed style; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a bell turret; and contains wood work and an ancient font taken from the old church.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Newbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Newbury
- Poor Law Union: Newbury
- Hundred: Faircross
- Province: Canterbury