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The post office and general stores in Leigh Street was, and still is, important to the community.

This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still

By that time, building work on William Leigh's plan for a grand mansion at nearby Woodchester Park had been under way for six years.

The tiny hamlet of Leigh lies on the east bank of the River Severn, perched on land just high enough to raise it from the floodplain, a few miles north-west of Cheltenham.

Leigh stands near the River?

The Bristol diocese was created by Henry VIII in 1542, and comprised eighteen parishes within the city boundaries, fourteen others in Gloucestershire and Abbots Leigh in Somerset.

Leigh is noted for its weatherboard cottages.

The Bristol dioceses was created by Henry VIII in 1542, and comprised eighteen parishes within the city boundaries, fourteen others in Gloucestershire, and Abbots Leigh in Somerset.

This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.

Among its many memorials is an effigy of William Leigh, shown vested in the robe of a Knight of St Gregory and holding in his hands a model of the church he founded.

It was also famed for its absentee rectors, including Edward Trafford Leigh, who took himself off to Italy for his health in the 1830s.

The view from the suspension bridge towards Leigh Woods.

One of Dorset's three ancient mazes stood at Leigh, though it had all but disappeared by the early 1900s.

Leigh-on-Sea is high on the hill overlooking the Thames Estuary, just west of Southend.

Leigh-on-Sea

Leigh is noted for its weatherboard cottages.

The packet service from Manchester to Liverpool via Worsley, Leigh and Wigan took fourteen hours, though meals were provided at 1s each.

Another iron-making village, situated on a tributary of the River Mole, Leigh (pronounced 'Lye') is centred on this demure, triangular village green with its covered pump.

The village of High Legh probably gets its name because it was an early settlement in a forest clearing sitting on high land.

The millennium project book, 'Westbury & Westbury Leigh, A Celebration of the Town & its People' details the development.

This fascinating photograph shows Leigh Road at its junction with Market Street.

Now little remains of the massive structure that once guarded the coast to the west of Leigh-on-Sea.

It stands on a mound composed of cartloads of broken pots from The Vineries at Leigh.

The millennium project book, 'Westbury & Westbury Leigh, A Celebration of the Town & its People' details the development.