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Leek is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet 10 miles (16 km) north east of Stoke-on-Trent. It is an ancient borough and was granted its royal charter in 1214.
Leek is a civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England. It contains 144 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, five are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
People from Leek, Staffordshire (1 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Leek, Staffordshire" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536–41, the abbey had two water mills in Leek, one of which was on the River Churnet in Mill Street. [ 3 ] In the early 1750s James Brindley , who had set up as a millwright in Mill Street in 1742 after completing his apprenticeship in Macclesfield , was asked to rebuild the corn mill in Leek.
Staffordshire Moorlands is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. Its council is based in Leek , the district's largest town. The district also contains the towns of Biddulph and Cheadle , along with a large rural area containing many villages.
St Edward the Confessor's Church is an active Anglican church in Leek, Staffordshire, England.The building, which dates back to the 13th century, is listed Grade II*. [1]It is Leek's original parish church, although the parish now includes other churches such as All Saints which were built as the town's population increased.
Stanley is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Leek. The village of Bagnall is about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south. Stanley was formerly a township in the parish of Leek, and later part of a civil parish with Endon (about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north) and Longsdon ...
Abbey Green is a village near Leek in the English county of Staffordshire.. The village is close to the site of Dieulacres Abbey.The abbey was founded in 1214 by Ranulph de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester for Cistercian monks, who moved from Poulton, Cheshire because of attacks from the Welsh.