Leinthall Earls or Leinthall Earles is a village in

Aymestrey Aymestrey ( ) is a village and civil parish in north-western Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish, including the hamlet of Yatton, at the 2011 Census was 351. Location It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles no ...

civil parish, Herefordshire, England.

Parish church

The earliest parts of the

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or St Andrew are 12th-century

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. It is part of a single

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with the parishes of Aymestrey and

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Quarry

Leinthall Earls Quarry is north of the village. Up to 2,000 tonnes of

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are quarried there daily. A

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runs roughly southwest – northeast just south of the quarry, and is downthrown to the south.

References

Villages in Herefordshire {{Herefordshire-geo-stub