Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire

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Leckhampstead is a small village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, near the border with Northamptonshire. It sits about 3 miles northeast of Buckingham and to the west of Milton Keynes, on the River Leck, which flows into the River Great Ouse. The name comes from Old English and means a homestead where leeks are grown. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as Lechamstede.

In the 16th century the village was split into Leckhampstead Magna (great) and Leckhampstead Parva (little), with a manor house in Parva. Later the two parts were joined again when the owner of Magna inherited Parva. The manor and the parish living were given to Martha Lovelace, daughter of the Governor of New York. She married Henry Beauclerk, and their son Henry inherited the manor in 1788. He had also been given the living of the parish church.

The parish church is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a Norman building, with a tower added in the 13th century, and it is a Grade I listed building. The population was 192 at the 2011 census.