Leighterton is a village in rural

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off the A46. It sits within the civil parish of Boxwell with Leighterton, 4.25 miles west-southwest of

Tetbury Tetbury is a town and civil parish inside the Cotswold district in England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 i ...

, towards the southern end of the Cotswolds AONB. Situated in the

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, it is 175 metres above sea level. Historically, it was situated within the hundred of Grumbald's Ash. The village's parish church, dedicated to St Andrew, is a

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. Originally built in the 13th century and with a porch dating from the 14th century, it underwent a restoration in 1877. The patronage of the church formerly belonged to

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and

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, later passing to the Huntley family of Boxwell Court. There are over a dozen listed buildings within the village built with Cotswold limestone, including the 19th century Royal Oak pub and former village hall. A

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, located just outside the village, is listed as a

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. An example of a Cotswold-Severn megalithic chamber tomb, it is 220 feet in length with burial likely to date between 3800BC and 3625BC. The manor of Leighterton is recorded as being held by Humphrey de Bohun in 1373 and by Robert Stanshaw in 1473, part of the Stanshaw family of Little Sodbury Manor. The village is located in the Grumbolds Ash with Avening

Cotswold district council The Cotswolds (, ) is a region in central-southwest England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale. The area is defined by the bedrock of Jura ...

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and the

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