Elkstone

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Elkstone
Gloucestershire
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Elkstone Church
Location
Location: 51°48’31"N, 2°2’58"W
Data
Population: 248  (2011)
Post town: Cheltenham
Postcode: GL53
Dialling code: 01242
Local Government
Council: Cotswold
Parliamentary
constituency:
The Cotswolds

Elkstone is a village and parish in the Rapsgate hundred of Gloucestershire. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 203,[1] increasing to 248 at the 2011 census[2]

Approximately seven miles south of its post town, Cheltenham, and approximately eight miles north-west of Cirencester, Elkstone lies within the Cotswolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

History

Elkstone was listed as Elchestane in the Domesday Book of 1086.[3] A church was built in Elkstone around 1160.[4]

References

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Footnotes
Bibliography
  • Verey, David (1976), Cotswold Churches, B.T. Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-3054-0