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Leek

Leek is a market town and civil parish in the district of the county of , England. The town lies on the , 10 miles north east of .
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  • Type: Town with 20,800 residents
  • Description: market town and civil parish in the county of Staffordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Leek UK” and “Leek, Staffordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brindley Water Mill and Leek railway station.

Museum
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The is a water mill in the town of Leek, Staffordshire, England, built in 1752 by James Brindley. It was restored to working order in the 1970s, and is now a museum. It is a Scheduled Monument and a Grade II Listed Building.

Railway station
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served the town of Leek, . It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1849. Passenger services to Uttoxeter were withdrawn in 1965, with complete closure following in 1970.

Church
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All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in Leek, Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. It was designed by Norman Shaw, and built in 1885–1887; the church has stained glass by Morris & Co.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abbey Green and Thorncliffe.

Hamlet
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is a small village in the civil parish of Leek, in the district of , England. It is close to the market town of Leek.

Village
is a small village in , England, straddling the and Peak District National Park. By 1600 the name had replaced the settlement's earlier name, Thorntileg, meaning "clearing in thorn trees". is situated 2½ miles northeast of Leek.

Hamlet
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is a village and civil parish in the district, in the county of , England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 781. is situated 2½ miles west of Leek.

Leek

Latitude
53.1058° or 53° 6′ 21″ north
Longitude
-2.0243° or 2° 1′ 27″ west
Population
20,800
Elevation
646 feet (197 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LEK
Open location code
9C5V4X4G+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25441953
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2644684
Wiki­data ID
Q2070717
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Leek” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ليك”
  • Armenian: “Լիք”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lik”
  • Basque: “Leek (Staffordshire)”
  • Basque: “Leek”
  • Bengali: “লীক”
  • Breton: “Leek”
  • Bulgarian: “Лийк”
  • Cebuano: “Leek”
  • Chinese: “利克”
  • Dutch: “Leek”
  • Esperanto: “Leek (Staffordshire)”
  • Esperanto: “Leek”
  • Esperanto: “Liko”
  • Finnish: “Leek”
  • French: “Leek”
  • German: “Leek”
  • Greek: “Λικ”
  • Gujarati: “લીક”
  • Irish: “Leek, Staffordshire”
  • Irish: “Leek”
  • Italian: “Leek”
  • Japanese: “リーク (スタッフォードシャー州)”
  • Japanese: “リーク”
  • Kannada: “ಲೀಕ್”
  • Korean: “릭”
  • Ladin: “Leek”
  • Lithuanian: “Lykas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Leek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leek”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leek i Staffordshire”
  • Norwegian: “Leek”
  • Persian: “لیک، استافوردشر”
  • Polish: “Leek”
  • Portuguese: “Leek”
  • Romanian: “Leek, Staffordshire”
  • Romanian: “Leek”
  • Russian: “Лик”
  • Slovenian: “Leek”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیک، استافوردشر”
  • Spanish: “Leek”
  • Swedish: “Leek, Staffordshire”
  • Swedish: “Leek”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரவுண்ஸ்டான் டவுன்”
  • Telugu: “లీక్”
  • Urdu: “لیک”
  • Venetian: “Leek”
  • Volapük: “Leek”
  • Welsh: “Leek, Swydd Stafford”
  • Welsh: “Leek”
  • “Leek”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leek”. Photo: EthelRedThePetrolHead, CC BY 2.0.