Letcombe Regis
| Letcombe Regis | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 Letcombe Regis | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU3886 |
| Location: | 51°34’34"N, 1°27’11"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 548 (2001) |
| Post town: | Wantage |
| Postcode: | OX12 |
| Dialling code: | 01235 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Vale of White Horse |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wantage |
Letcombe Regis is a village in the Vale of White Horse in Berkshire. It stands on Letcombe Brook at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment about a mile south-west of the market town of Wantage.
Letcombe Regis has one public house, the Greyhound Inn.[1]
History
The parish includes Segsbury Camp, an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Downs just over a mile south of the village.
The Domesday Book of 1086 records Letcombe Regis as Ledencumbe, and as land belonging to the King, hence the later suffix "Regis". The name may come from the Old English Ledecumbe meaning the "brook valley".
King John is said to have had a hunting lodge at Moat House in the parish.
Parish church
The parish church is Saint Andrew's; part of the Ridgeway Benefice, along with the parishes of Childrey, Kingston Lisle, Letcombe Bassett, Sparsholt and West Challow.
References
Books
- Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 222–228.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 167.