IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Kidnappers Lane, CHELTENHAM, GL53 0NT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Kidnappers Lane, GL53 0NT by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (60 Images Found)
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Kidnappers Lane, Leckhampton, Cheltenham
Viewed from the corner of Church Road. The Leckhampton Local History Society website records that the lane was originally Green Lane. The first mention in print of Kidnappers Lane was on the 1884 Ordnance Survey map. In 1896, R.C. Barnard, the great historian of Leckhampton, wrote in his notebook that he could offer no explanation for the name Kidnappers Lane.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 16 Sep 2018
0.01 miles
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Kidnappers Lane name sign, Leckhampton, Cheltenham
On the corner of Church Road. The Leckhampton Local History Society website records that the lane was originally Green Lane. The first mention in print of Kidnappers Lane was on the 1884 Ordnance Survey map. In 1896, R.C. Barnard, the great historian of Leckhampton, wrote in his notebook that he could offer no explanation for the name Kidnappers Lane.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 16 Sep 2018
0.03 miles
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Old Lodge, Church Road, Leckhampton, Cheltenham
Now a private residence named The Old Lodge, the early 19th century building was one of three Leckhampton Court lodges. The Sue Ryder sign on the right is at the edge of the main entrance drive https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5920849 to Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 16 Sep 2018
0.05 miles
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Lych gate at Leckhampton
Lych gate entrance to St Peter's church, Leckhampton.
Image: © Philip Halling
Taken: 29 Jan 2011
0.06 miles
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Lychgate, Church Road, Leckhampton
Derived from an old English word for a corpse, a lychgate is the roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used to shelter a coffin until the clergyman's arrival for the burial or pre-burial service. This one is at the Church Road entrance to the Parish Church of St Peter Leckhampton in the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 16 Sep 2018
0.07 miles
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Information board, Parish Church of St Peter, Leckhampton
Facing Church Road near the lychgate. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6239369
In September 2018 text on the board shows A member of the South Cheltenham Team Ministry
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 16 Sep 2018
0.07 miles
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Stained glass window, Leckhampton church
Stained glass window in St Peter's church, Leckhampton.
Image: © Philip Halling
Taken: 29 Jan 2011
0.07 miles
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Stained glass window, Leckhampton church
Stained glass window in St Peter's church, Leckhampton.
Image: © Philip Halling
Taken: 29 Jan 2011
0.07 miles
