LETCHLADE, (Gloucestershire) 60 cm. 74 mm. from London, on the b. of Oxfordshire and Berks, and the great road to
Gloucester, had anciently a nunnery, and a priory of black canons. In the R. of K. John, the manor went by marriage from
the Ferrers family to Roger Mortimer, and in that of Hen. III. it was in the crown. Here were, not long ago, the seats of
Nich. Harding, Tho. Coxeter, and Rd. Simons; and now that of Sir Fr. Bathurst, whose ancestor purchased both the T. and
manor. In this p. is Clay-Hill. The Mt. is on Tu and Fairs on St. Lawrence's-day and August 29. It is supposed to have
been a Roman T. for a plain Roman road runs from hence to Cirencester; and by digging in a meadow near it, a few years
ago, an old building was discovered, supposed to be a Roman bath. It was 50 foot long, 40 broad, and 4 high, supported
with 100 brick pillars, curiously inlaid with stones of divers colours of tesseraic work. The Lech, the Coln, the Churn
and Isis, which all rise in the Cotswould-Hills, join here in one full stream, and become one r. called the Thames, which
begins here to be navigable, and barges take in butter, cheese, and other goods at its quay for London.