Leinthall Earls

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Leinthall Earls
Herefordshire
Cottage, Leinthall Earls - geograph.org.uk - 640779.jpg
Timber-framed cottage in Leinthall Earls
Location
Grid reference: SO442677
Location: 52°18’19"N, 2°49’7"W
Data
Postcode: HR6
Local Government

Leinthall Earls or Leinthall Earles is a village in Herefordshire, close to Aymestrey.

Parish church

The parish church is St Andrew’s, the earliest parts of which are of the 12th-century[1] Norman.[2]

The parish is part of a single benefice with the parishes of Aymestrey and Kingsland.[3]

Quarry

Leinthall Earls Quarry is north of the village. Up to 2,000 tons of aggregate are quarried there daily. A geological fault runs roughly southwest – northeast just south of the quarry, and is downthrown to the south.[4]

References

  1. RCHME, ed (1934). An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire. 3, North West. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 9–15. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3/pp9-15. 
  2. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, 1963; 2012 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-12575-7page 221
  3. Leinthall Earles: St Andrew: A Church Near You
  4. "Leinthall Earls Quarry". Aggregates of Herefordshire. Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust. http://www.earthheritagetrust.org/pub/learning-discovery/aggregates/aggregates-of-herefordshire/site-examples-hfds/leinthall-earls-quarry/. Retrieved 15 August 2014.