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Leek and Lowe in 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"LEEK, a parish and market town in the N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, county Stafford, 10 miles S.W. of Buxton, and 13½ S.E. of Macclesfield. The Churnet Valley section of the North Staffordshire railway has a station at Leek, and a branch line from Leek to Stoke is now in the course of construction. There is also a branch of the Trent and Mersey canal to Leek. " (There is more of this description).
An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Leek is to be found on a supplementary page.
- Boundary Lands
- Bradnop
- Cawdry
- Dun Wood
- Endon
- Heaton
- Leek Frith
- Longsdon
- Lowe
- Meerbrook
- Onecote
- Rudyard
- Rushton James and Rushton Spencer
- Stanley
- The Abbey
- Tittesworth
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]