page_title: Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Mary's Church, Hawridge - View from S.E. Another aspect of Hawridge's quaint little church.Information about Hawridge &amp; St. Mary's here http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42580
context_page_description: Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards is a civil parish in the Chiltern district of the English county of Buckinghamshire. It is located in the Chiltern Hills just to the north of Chesham and forms a boundary along its length with Hertfordshire.
  It comprises the hamlet of Buckland Common, and the villages of Cholesbury, Hawridge and St Leonards which were brought together as part of the local government reorganisation in April 1934. The parish has since increased in size through the annexing of additional parcels of land which previously were part of Chesham, Ashley Green and Drayton Beauchamp.
context_section_description: Today there are three Anglican churches:- St Mary's Hawridge; St Laurence, Cholesbury and St Leonards which are part of the Diocese of Oxford. There was a fourth church located adjacent to the Green at Buckland Common, which was deconsecrated in 1939 having fallen into disrepair. Nearby, there was also a Strict Baptist chapel which continued to serve the community until the end of the 1970s. In Hawridge a mission hall ran until the 1980s.
caption: St Mary's Church, Hawridge
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