Inglesham

Inglesham
Inglesham is located in Wiltshire
Inglesham
Inglesham
Location within Wiltshire
Population112 (in 2021)[1]
OS grid referenceSU206984
Civil parish
  • Inglesham
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSwindon
Postcode districtSN6
Dialling code01367
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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51°41′02″N 1°42′14″W / 51.684°N 1.704°W / 51.684; -1.704

Inglesham is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England, notable for the Grade-I listed St John the Baptist Church. The village is just off the A361 road about 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of Lechlade in Gloucestershire. Most of the population lives in the hamlet of Upper Inglesham, which is on the main road about 1.3 miles (2 km) south of the village.

The parish forms the extreme north-east corner of the Borough of Swindon and County of Wiltshire, and is bounded to the west and north by the River Thames (which also forms the county boundary with Gloucestershire), and to the east by the county boundary with Oxfordshire (Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes). The River Cole forms part of the eastern boundary.

As the parish's population is small, it has a parish meeting instead of a parish council.[2]

The Round House, Inglesham is often used by boaters as a landmark to denote the westernmost point most cabin cruisers and narrowboats can travel along the Thames, as beyond Inglesham the river becomes too clogged with vegetation and too shallow to effectively navigate.

  1. ^ "Inglesham: population statistics". CityPopulation.de. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Inglesham Parish Meeting – Councillors". Council & Democracy – Parish council. Swindon Borough Council. 2004–2006. Retrieved 11 October 2010.