English Heritage sites near Eastleach Parish
MINSTER LOVELL HALL AND DOVECOTE
9 miles from Eastleach Parish
The extensive and picturesque ruins of a 15th century riverside manor house, including a fine hall, south-west tower, and complete dovecote nearby. The home of Richard III's henchman Lord Lovell.
CIRENCESTER AMPHITHEATRE
11 miles from Eastleach Parish
The earthwork remains of one of the largest Roman amphitheatres in Britain, built in the early 2nd century to serve the important city of Corinium, now Cirencester.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
13 miles from Eastleach Parish
Three atmospheric sites lie along the Ridgeway. Uffington 'Castle' is a large Iron Age hillfort, Dragon Hill a natural mound associated in legend with St George.
WAYLAND'S SMITHY
13 miles from Eastleach Parish
A fine and atmospheric Neolithic chambered long barrow 2km (11/4 miles) along the Ridgeway from the Uffington White Horse: it was once believed to be the habitation of the Saxon smith-god Wayland.
NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA
14 miles from Eastleach Parish
The remains of a large, well built Roman courtyard villa. The most important feature is a nearly complete mosaic tile floor, patterned in reds and browns.
BELAS KNAP LONG BARROW
17 miles from Eastleach Parish
A particularly fine example of a Neolithic long barrow of c.3800 BC, featuring a false entrance and side chambers. During excavations in the 1860s, the remains of 31 people were found in the chambers.
Churches in Eastleach Parish
St Andrew's, Eastleach
Eastleach
01367 253651
http://sctm.church/eastleach/
We are a friendly village church which specializes in traditional Book of Common Prayer [BCP] worship (ie in seventeenth-century language). We are one of the parishes in the South Cotswold Team Ministry, under the pastoral care of Revd Andrew Cinnamond.
The church building retains many original Norman features, particularly in the porch and doorway; the saddle-back tower was added in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The base of a fourteenth-century cross stands in the churchyard. Inside the church, the shaft of the lectern was originally in Tewkesbury Abbey: it came into the possession of a parishioner who used it as a parrot-stand, and on the demise of the bird she returned it to its original purpose.
(Just over the River Leach is the church of St Michael & St Martin, sometimes known as Bouthrop church, which also has Norman origins. John Keble, an early leader of the 'Oxford Movement', started his ordained ministry as Curate of this church. The building is no longer used for regular worship, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.)
Pubs in Eastleach Parish
Victoria Inn
Eastleach Turville, GL7 3NQ
(01367) 850277
thevictoriainneastleach.co.uk/