has a village hall used for voluntary and social gatherings. The one public house in the village, The Stag, closed in 2017. Leckhampstead War Memorial is sited on the triangular village green. It comprises an obelisk on a plinth with two clock faces, one facing north and one facing south, which incorporate various types of ammunition in them. The surrounding chains are from a battleship that took part in the Battle of Jutland and they are supported on spent shell cases. It was given Grade II listed status in May 2016, legally protecting it from unauthorised modification or removal. The Hangman's Stone is a boundary stone about a mile south of the middle of the village. It gets its name from a local tale which tells of a sheep rustler who was carrying a stolen sheep over his shoulder with a rope held around his neck. Feeling tired the thief sat on a stone beside the road and fell asleep. The sheep, in struggling to get free, hanged the man by the rope that had remained around his neck. The stone has given its name to the road which passes it, Hangman's Stone Lane, which leads to the village of Boxford. The hamlet of Hill Green has six listed buildings, all in the initial category of Grade II. All are homes, the earliest dating to the early 16th century. Leckhampstead Thicket Leckhampstead Thicket is a hamlet between Leckhampstead and Chaddleworth. There are a number of thatched or slate-roofed cottages of which two are listed buildings and a Primitive Methodist chapel, dated 1874, rebuilt from one of 1830, which has not been in use as a chapel for a number of years. Transport Bus service 107 connects the village with Newbury. The M4 motorway has a junction within of the parish & two almost straight roads lead towards the south & north in this parish. Economy The physical economy within the parish is mainly related to agriculture. In the early 20th century, the brick works at Oare, part of Chieveley, employed some of the villagers. A high proportion of the 16–74 age range in the 2011 census were self-employed. Demography At the same census 238 people in Leckhampstead were aged 16–74 whose economic activity was divided as follows, per their responses: References Bibliography Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis Volume 1, trans. John Hudson,(Oxford Medieval Texts) Oxford, 2007 External links Nearest places Civil parishes