Leighfield is a Town in the county of Rutland.

Retail in Leighfield

There are great places to visit near Leighfield including some great towns, villages and lakes.

The area around Leighfield's best towns can be found at Oakham.

Wakerley is a great place to visit close to Leighfield if you like villages.

There are a several good lakes in the area around Leighfield like Rutland Water.

Leighfield History

There are some historic monuments around Leighfield:

• Standing cross on The Green, 130m north west of The Bede House
• Oakham motte and bailey castle and medieval gardens
• Manorial site west of St Gile's Church and medieval settlement west of Manor Farm
• Burrough Iron Age hill fort
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Beaumont Chase
• Lyddington Bedehouse: a medieval bishop's palace and post-medieval almshouse with moat, gardens, fishponds and cultivation remains
• Castle mound
• Deserted medieval village on A6003, Snelston
• Ashwell medieval settlement remains, watermill and gardens at Old Hall
• Bronze Age enclosure
• Sauvey Castle
• Moated site at Allexton
• Moated grange and enclosure at Owston
• Whatborough deserted medieval village
• Dovecot and arch, formerly lodge of Brooke House
• Martinsthorpe deserted medieval village
• Butter Cross and stocks
• Moor Lane moated site, Whissendine
• Defended enclosure on Robin-a-tiptoe Hill
• Bridge over River Chater
• Butter Cross 150m east of the church
• Owston Augustinian Abbey with six fishponds, a gatehouse and boundary
• Hallaton motte and bailey castle
• Bridge at Medbourne
• Site of abbey church and claustral buildings