Poole Keynes
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| Poole Keynes | |
| Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
 St Michael and All Angels, Poole Keynes | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU000954 |
| Location: | 51°39’29"N, 2°0’4"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 188 (2011) |
| Post town: | Cirencester |
| Postcode: | GL7 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cotswold |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
The Cotswolds |
Poole Keynes is a small village and parish in Wiltshire, within the Cotswolds, some four miles south of Cirencester in neighbouring Gloucestershire. It forms part of Malmesbury Hundred. 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
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Poole Keynes) |
- History of St. Michael and All Angels – Thameshead Benefice
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1341368: Church of St Michael
- ↑ St Michael and All Angels' Church Poole Keynes: Thameshead Benefice
