Lasborough is a settlement in

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...

, England, part of the Westonbirt with Lasborough civil parish. Lasborough lies to the west of the A46, about two miles north of Leighterton, two miles south of Kingscote and five miles west of

Tetbury Tetbury is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish inside the Cotswold (district), Cotswold district in Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon monastery was found ...

. Lasborough is an ancient settlement, with remains of a Roman villa nearby, and it lay on the Roman road from Bath to Chavenage Green. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded a settlement of 13 households. However, like its sister community of

Westonbirt Westonbirt is a village in the civil parish of Westonbirt with Lasborough, in the district of Cotswold, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. History Westonbirt was recorded in the Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English ...

, the village of Lasborough was largely depopulated in the Middle Ages, with only the manor house and the church surviving. The manor house, which dated from 1319, belonged to the

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family from 1598. It was rebuilt about 1610 as Lasborough Manor (later Lasborough Farm), and the surrounding land

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, by Sir Thomas Estcourt (1569–1624). He served as a justice of the peace and a sheriff, as well as two periods as an MP, first for

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and later for

. Lasborough House was built in the 1790s on part of the estate of Lasborough Farm for the then owner, Edmund Estcourt, by the architect

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in a castellated neo-Gothic style. By the 1820s, the church of St. Mary's, Lasborough was derelict. It was rebuilt in 1861–2 by

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for R. S. Holford, who had purchased the Lasborough estate in 1844. The church featured in the BBC TV series ''

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''. It is one of the ten churches in the

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