Poole Keynes

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Poole Keynes
Gloucestershire

St Michael and All Angels, Poole Keynes
Location
Grid reference: SU000954
Location: 51°39’29"N, 2°0’4"W
Data
Local Government
Council: Cotswold
Parliamentary
constituency:
The Cotswolds

Poole Keynes is a small village in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, found some four miles south of Cirencester.

The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 188.

Lakes in the south-east of the parish, formed by gravel extraction, are part of the Cotswold Water Park nature reserve.

Parish church

The parish church, St Michael and All Angels, was built around 1770 on the site of an older church. It was restored in 1845.[1]

Today the parish is served by the Thameshead benefice, a grouping of six parishes.[2]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Poole Keynes)

References

  1. National Heritage List 1341368: Church of St Michael
  2. St Michael and All Angels' Church Poole Keynes: Thameshead Benefice