Leckhampstead is a village and
civil parish in the unitary authority area of
Buckinghamshire
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, England. It is near the boundary with
Northamptonshire, about north east of
Buckingham
Buckingham ( ) is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,890 at the 2011 Census. The town lies approximately west of Central Milton Keynes, sou ...
, and west of
Milton Keynes
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. The village is on the
River Leck, a
tributary of the
River Great Ouse
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.
History
The
toponym is derived from the
Old English
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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 manor and living of Leckhampstead were given to
Martha Lovelace who was the daughter of the
Governor of New York
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. She married Henry Beauclerk and their only son, also called Henry, inherited the manor in 1788. This Henry had already been given the living of the
parish church of the
Assumption of the Blesséd Virgin Mary.
The church building is
Norman, with a tower that was added in the 13th century. It is a
Grade I listed building.
References
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External links
North Buckingham Parish
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Villages in Buckinghamshire
Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire