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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.
Leekfrith is a civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands, in Staffordshire, England, north of the town of Leek. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 363. [1] It is an area between the River Churnet which is near Leek, and the River Dane (the boundary with Cheshire) and its tributary Black Brook.
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.
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.
It is a prime example of Staffordshire's industrial past – a flint grinding watermill previously used for supplying the pottery industry further along the canal in Stoke-on-Trent. It is open to the public free of charge, and has been preserved, with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund , by the Cheddleton Flint Mill Industrial Heritage Trust.
Heaton is a small village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Leek and about 7 miles (11 km) south of Macclesfield. The village of Heaton is situated near the centre of the civil parish. The River Dane is the northern boundary with Cheshire; the civil parishes of Rushton and Leekfrith are to the ...