Northleach church Northleach with Eastington is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

in the

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county of

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that includes the town of

Northleach Northleach is a market town and former civil parish, now in parish Northleach with Eastington, in the Cotswold district, in Gloucestershire, England. The town is in the valley of the River Leach in the Cotswolds, about northeast of Cirenceste ...

and the hamlet of Eastington, about 1 miles SE of the town. It forms part of the

Cotswold district Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region. Its main town is Cirencester. Other notable towns include Tetbury, Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold and Chipping Campden. ...

History

The parish was formed on 1 April 1935 from the parishes of "Northleach" and "Eastington" and part of

Hampnett Hampnett is a small village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, just west of the Fosse Way. It is situated west of the junction of the A40 and A429 roads in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A number of springs in th ...

Freedom of the Town

The following people and military units have received the

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of Northleach with Eastington.

Individuals

* Christopher Hancock: 24 April 2019.

References

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, ''Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds'', The Buildings of England edited by

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, '' The Buildings of England'' ...

, 2nd ed. (1979) , p. 343 Civil parishes in Gloucestershire Cotswold District {{Gloucestershire-geo-stub