St Nicholas, Leckford, Hampshire

It was time to return home and after a good breakfast, I was on the road by 10.00. I made several stops, visiting churches at Blackford in Somerset, Stapleford in Wiltshire and this one at Leckford in Hampshire. I stopped at Wilton in Wiltshire again, for a lunch break and arrived home at 4.15pm after a long day!

Leckford is in the Test Valley, north of Stockbridge. Much of the village and the land belongs to the John Lewis Partnership AKA Waitrose. There are some extremely pretty cottages here. The church dates from the 13th Century and inside is very rustic. There are a set of stalls in the chancel that look as if they have been brought from a closed Belgian Abbey and they look 17th Century and very out of place in a remote Hampshire downland church. In fact, the guide reveals that the stalls came from an Italian monastery! This is a church well worth visiting and made a fitting end to a very good holiday.