Boxwell

Boxwell with Leighterton is a civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 232, increasing to 306 at the 2011 census. The parish includes Boxwell and Leighterton. The adjoining parishes are: Ozleworth to the north-west; Kingscote to the north; Westonbirt with Lasborough to the east; Didmarton to the south; and Hillesley and Tresham to the west. The last is in the Stroud district; the others are in the Cotswold district.

Westonbirt with Lasborough is a civil parish in the district of Cotswold, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It includes the villages of Lasborough and Westonbirt. As of 2019, it has a population of 293.

Boxwell Court is a country house near Leighterton in Gloucestershire, England, about 5 km or 3 miles east of Wotton-under-Edge, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Leighterton is a village in rural Gloucestershire off the A46. It sits within the civil parish of Boxwell with Leighterton, 4.25 miles west-southwest of Tetbury, towards the southern end of the Cotswolds AONB. Situated in the Cotswold hills, it is 175 metres above sea level. Historically, it was situated within the hundred of Grumbald's Ash.The village's parish church, dedicated to St Andrew, is a Grade II* listed building. Originally built in the 13th century and with a porch dating from the 14th century, it underwent a restoration in 1877. The patronage of the church formerly belonged to Walsingham Priory and Gloucester Abbey, later passing to the Huntley family of Boxwell Court.There are over a dozen listed buildings within the village built with Cotswold limestone, including the 19th century Royal Oak pub and former village hall.A long barrow, located just outside the village, is listed as a scheduled monument. An example of a Cotswold-Severn megalithic chamber tomb, it is 220 feet in length with burial likely to date between 3800BC and 3625BC.The manor of Leighterton is recorded as being held by Humphrey de Bohun in 1373 and by Robert Stanshaw in 1473, part of the Stanshaw family of Little Sodbury Manor.The village is located in the Grumbolds Ash with Avening Cotswold district council ward and the Tetbury Gloucestershire county council electoral division.

Boxwell SSSI (grid reference ST816928) is a 5.31-hectare (13.1-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS).

Lasborough Park (or Lasborough House) is a Grade II listed country house in Newington Bagpath/Lasborough, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England. The estate includes a medieval manor, a house, and parkland. The original medieval manor, Lasborough Farm, dates to the 11th century, and included terraced gardens. A manor house is record in the 14th century. The manor was surrounded by woodland and a deer park. Lasborough House and its pleasure grounds was built in 1794.In the mid 17th century, the Lasborough manor was made up of two farms which were worked by tenant farmers, that of Lasborough Park and also Bowldown Farm. Lasborough Farm had an old manor-house. The country house Lasborough Park was built in 1794 for Edmund Estcourt by James Wyatt in Tudor Gothic style. In the early 1870s, Lasborough Park was owned by Robert Stayner Holford of Westonbirt House. The house was enlarged and altered in the 19th century. It was later purchased by Galbraith Cole. In 1929, the house was purchased by Maj. R. A. Scott who held it until 1950. It passed to a timber merchant firm in 1952 who cut down trees on the property. In 1954, it was purchased by W. Curtis and the old manor-house was sold off.The Middle Avon River rises at two heads; one in Newington Bagpath, which passes through Lasborough Park to Boxwell; the, other in Hawkesbury, which passes by Wickwar. The streams unite below Kingswood, county of Wiltshire.

St Arild's Church is a historic Anglican church near the village of Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, England under the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, The church is dedicated to Arilda, a female saint who was a virgin and a martyr. This is one of only two churches dedicated to her, the other being nearby at Oldbury-on-Severn. Access to the church is across fields or through a farmyard.

Lasborough is a settlement in Gloucestershire, England, part of the Westonbirt with Lasborough civil parish. Lasborough lies to the west of the A46, about two miles north of Leighterton, two miles south of Kingscote and five miles west of Tetbury. Lasborough is an ancient settlement, with remains of a Roman villa nearby, and it lay on the Roman road from Bath to Chavenage Green. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded a settlement of 13 households. However, like its sister community of Westonbirt, the village of Lasborough was largely depopulated in the Middle Ages, with only the manor house and the church surviving.The manor house, which dated from 1319, belonged to the Estcourt family from 1598. It was rebuilt about 1610 as Lasborough Manor (later Lasborough Farm), and the surrounding land enclosed, by Sir Thomas Estcourt (1569–1624). He served as a justice of the peace and a sheriff, as well as two periods as an MP, first for Malmesbury and later for Gloucestershire.Lasborough House was built in the 1790s on part of the estate of Lasborough Farm for the then owner, Edmund Estcourt, by the architect James Wyatt in a castellated neo-Gothic style.By the 1820s, the church of St. Mary's, Lasborough was derelict. It was rebuilt in 1861–2 by Lewis Vulliamy for R. S. Holford, who had purchased the Lasborough estate in 1844. The church featured in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to Candleford. It is one of the ten churches in the benefice of Badminton.

Midger (grid reference ST797895) is a 65.7-hectare (162-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest straddling the border of Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, notified in 1966 and renotified in 1984. Since the last revision in 1974, the size has been reduced to a 56-hectare (140-acre) site. It lies east of Hillesley, Gloucestershire and north of Hawkesbury Upton, South Gloucestershire. It is at the head of the Kilcott Valley. There are six units of assessment.Part of the site (grid reference ST794892) is part owned (and managed) by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.

Oldbury-on-the-Hill is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Didmarton, in the Cotswold district, in Gloucestershire, England, ninety-three miles west of London and less than one-mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Didmarton. In 1881 the parish had a population of 386.

Tresham is a village in Gloucestershire, England. It was transferred back from the county of Avon in 1991, having been in Gloucestershire before 1972. It is now in Stroud District, and forms part of the civil parish of Hillesley and Tresham. It is on the Monarch's Way and near the Cotswold Way (grid reference ST792912). According to Pevsner, Tresham Church dates from about 1855. Burden Court Farm was originally the home of Charles II's Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale (1609–76). It was later the home of Lord (Jack) and Lady (Frances) Donaldson.

Bagpath is a hamlet in Gloucestershire, England, in the Ozleworth valley south of the village of Kingscote and forming part of Kingscote civil parish. The hamlet consists of two separate settlements of Bagpath and Newington Bagpath, although residents of Newington Bagpath refer to their settlement solely as Newington. The hamlet falls under the authority of Cotswold District Council and is represented by the Conservative MP, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown. The hamlet is sparsely populated with a population of about 100, and a small number of farms. Almost all of the area is pasture or woodland.