page_title: Leckhampstead, Berkshire
section_title: Landmarks and amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Leckhampstead, Berkshire / Landmarks and amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Village Hall Leckhampstead village hall, constructed in 1910. The committee will need to start thinking about centenary events soon.
context_page_description: Leckhampstead is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England in the North Wessex Downs.
  Leckhampstead Thicket has a high proportion of its buildings that are thatched cottages and has a chapel, dated 1874, that is one of few active 'Primitive Methodist' chapels. A road and boundary stone in Leckhampstead, the Hangman's Stone and Hangman's Stone Lane, are named after a telling of a man who roped and carried a sheep from a farm in Leckhampstead around his neck but which strangled him after he stopped and slept. After a long hiatus the area returned to full village status in 1864. Its hamlet of Hill Green has six listed buildings and the amenities of the village include a public house, church and village hall.
context_section_description: The Church of England parish church of St James, built in 1859 of brick and flint, is towards the southern end of the village. It was designed by architect, Samuel Sanders Teulon. The interior is brick with patterns formed by the use of differently coloured brick courses and complementary colour stone embellishments.
  Leckhampstead has a village hall used for voluntary and social gatherings.
  The one public house in the village: The Stag, closed in 2017.
  Leckhampstead War Memorial is sited on the triangular village green. It comprises an obelisk on a plinth with two clock faces, one facing north and one facing south, which incorporate various types of ammunition in them. The surrounding chains are from a battleship that took part in the Battle of Jutland and they are supported on spent shell cases. It was given Grade II listed status in May 2016, legally protecting it from unauthorised modification or removal.
  The Hangman's Stone is a boundary stone about a mile south of the middle of the village at grid reference SU431748. It gets its name from a local tale which tells of a sheep rustler who was carrying a stolen sheep over his shoulder with a rope held around his neck. Feeling tired the thief sat on a stone beside the road and fell asleep. The sheep, in struggling to get free, hanged the man by the rope that had remained around his neck. The stone has given its name to the road which passes it, Hangman's Stone Lane, which leads to the village of Boxford.
  The hamlet of Hill Green has six listed buildings, all in the initial category of Grade II.  All are homes, the earliest dates to the 18th century.
caption: Leckhampstead village hall
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