It rises just south of the village of Acton Beauchamp, and flows south past Bosbury to the town of Ledbury, which takes its name from the river.

[1] It then flows south and east past Dymock, Upleadon and Highleadon to join the Severn at Over, just west of Gloucester.

[1] In the Middle Ages, the Leadon flowed in two branches for the last two miles.

[4] The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal was built through the valley of the Leadon in 1795, and converted into the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway in the 1880s.

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