Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire


Leckhampstead is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is near the boundary with Northamptonshire, about north east of Buckingham, and west of Milton Keynes. The village is on the River Leck, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.

History

The toponym is derived from the Old English for "homestead where leeks are grown". In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Lechamstede.
In the middle of the 16th century the village was split into two halves, Leckhampstead Magna and Leckhampstead Parva, with the foundation of a manor house in the latter. However within a couple of centuries the two halves were joined up again when the incumbent of Leckhampstead Magna inherited Leckhampstead Parva.
The Church of England parish church of the Assumption of the Blesséd Virgin Mary is Norman, with a tower that was added in the 13th century. It is a Grade I listed building.

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