Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a

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centre close to the village and

Batsford Arboretum Batsford Arboretum is a arboretum and botanical garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. It is owned and run by the Batsford Foundation, a registered charity, and is open to the public ...

is nearby, situated on the Cotswold escarpment.

Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial stands in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England, and is a memorial to those of Moreton and Batsford killed in the First and Second World Wars. The erection of the memorial on the High Street began ...

, on the High Street in Moreton-in-Marsh, commemorates the village's dead of two World Wars.

Civil parish

The civil parish of Batsford extends 2 miles east from the village, and includes the hamlets of

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and Lower Lemington. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 99. Batsford was an

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, which became a civil parish in 1866. In 1935 the civil parish more than doubled in size, when Dorn was transferred from the parish of Blockley and the civil parish of Lower Lemington was abolished and merged into Batsford.

Religious sites

The Church of St Leonard at Lower Lemington was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

Notable residents

* Richard Freeman,

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* Gilbert Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton

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{{authority control Villages in Gloucestershire Civil parishes in Gloucestershire Cotswold District