Leek and Lowe in 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]