Leinthall Starkes

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Leinthall Starkes
Herefordshire
Farm buildings at Leinthall Starkes - geograph.org.uk - 992150.jpg
Farm buildings at Leinthall Starkes
Location
Grid reference: SO436697
Location: 52.323, -2.829
Data
Population: 168  (2011)
Post town: Ludlow
Postcode: SY8
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Herefordshire

Leinthall Starkes is a small village in north-western Herefordshire, standing about seven miles south-west of Ludlow, and near the larger village of Wigmore: Leinthall Starkes is strung along the road between the two.

To the south is Leinthall Earls.

St Mary Magdalene

The village has a small, towerless church, St Mary Magdalene.

Places of interest

In a field on the western side of the village, just off the road to Wigmore, there is an Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post which was opened in May 1961 and closed in October 1968.[1]

Outside links

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