LECKFORD, a parish in the hundred of KING'S-SOMBOURN,
Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
1 mile (N.N.E.) from Stockbridge, containing
200 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester,, rated in
the king's books at £8. 16. 10., and in the patronage
of the Prebendary of Leckford in the Cathedral Church
of Winchester; the prebend, or sinecure rectory, rated
in the king's books at £ 9, is in the patronage of the
President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford.
The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. The Andover
canal passes close to the village.