Leigh (Ashton Keynes), Wiltshire
Historical Description
Leigh, a chapelry in Ashton Keynes parish, Wilts, on the river Thames, near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 2 miles from Minety station on the M. & S.W. Joint railway. Post town, Cricklade.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Civil parish | Ashton Keynes | |
Hundred | Highworth | |
Poor Law union | Cricklade and Wootton-Bassett |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Leigh (Ashton Keynes) from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Leigh (Ashton Keynes) are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online: