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Commons at St Leonards were enclosed in 1816. St Leonards Parish Hall was built in 1938 behind which there are extensive playing fields. St Leonards National School, which was founded in 1860, across the road from the church, and remained open until 1973 when children of the village transferred to the
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were opened and soon closed by the constables. The first licensed premise was the White Lion in 1714. Having ceased trading in 2015, an attempt to change use to residential was unsuccessful; and so through until June 2021, the pub premises were being refurbished under new ownership. The Pub is now
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of 1196. However this has not been verified and the choice of St
Leonard might have been because the hermit was instead connected with St Leonard's Hospital in Aylesbury. Blakemere is thought to be a reference to Black Mere, a marshy area and pond that appears in records from that time. (The pond
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