The Kennet and Avon Canal and Avoncliff railway station are below the hamlet in the river valley.

Turleigh Manor is Grade II* listed[1] and was established in the 17th or 18th century when both Winsley and Turleigh comprised stone houses dating from the previous three centuries.

These included Turleigh Grange (early 18th century), Stoneleigh, and Hill House (c.1740), originally two attached cottages.

Many of the smaller houses in Turleigh were occupied by quarrymen, stonemasons and tanners.

[2] John Daniel Heal, mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, was born at Turleigh in 1825.