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Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
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Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
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The ST postcode area, also known as the Stoke-on-Trent postcode area[1], is a group of postal districts around Leek, Newcastle, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Stone and Uttoxeter in England. ...
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Leek is a town in the county of Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet. It is an ancient borough and was granted its royal charter in 1214. It is the administrative centre for the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council. King John granted Ranulph de Blundeville, Earl of Chester, the right to hold a weekly Wednesday market and an annual seven-day fair in Leek in 1207. A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ...
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
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The River Churnet rises in the Staffordshire moorlands near the Roaches. ...
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Staffordshire Moorlands is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. ...
Leek was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on July 13, 1849. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
The North Staffordshire Railway was a British railway company which had its roots in an early scheme to build a small plateway from the base of the Cauldon canal up to Cauldon quarries. ...
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Economy
The town has had a regular cattle market for hundreds of years, reflecting its role as a centre of local farming. During the industrial revolution it became a major producer of textiles. Though this industry has declined somewhat, it has continued through the large number of clothing manufacturers in the town, and the prominence of dyeing and allied trades. The mills from the town's textile era still remain. Many are currently being turned into houses. The town's markets still remain active to this day. Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ...
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Geography Most of the town is at or above 600 feet (180 m) and is surrounded by the even higher countryside of the Staffordshire Moorlands which is situated on the southern uplands of the Pennines. Leek is built on the slope and crown of a hill which is situated just a few miles south of The Roaches which rises to 505m and lies on the tip of the Peak District National Park. Staffordshire Moorlands is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. ...
Typical Pennine scenery. ...
The Roaches (from the French les roches - the rocks) are a geographical feature situated above Leek and Tittesworth reservoir in the Peak District of the United Kingdom. ...
The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and South and West Yorkshire. ...
The Brecon Beacons National Park, looking from the highest point of Pen Y Fan (886 m/2907 feet) to Corn Du (873 m/2864 feet). ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 152 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The town centre of Leek, Staffordshire, photographed by myself on July 1st 2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Architecture & Development Many Victorian period, and older, buildings still stand in the town although the original town centre cattle market was demolished and replaced with a bus station and shopping centre in the 1960s. The new cattle market was built on the edge of town adjacent to the railway station. Later, this was one of the stations closed following Dr. Beeching's recommendations. It was later replaced with a supermarket now owned by Morrisons. Manchester Town Hall is an example of Victorian architecture found in Manchester, UK. The Carson Mansion is an example of a Victorian home in Eureka, California, USA The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. ...
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Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
Richard Beeching Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 - 23 March 1985), commonly known as Doctor Beeching, was chairman of British Railways and a physicist and engineer. ...
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Notable Residents Leek was the home of James Brindley, the 18th century canal engineer. He built a water-powered corn mill in 1752. This watermill is now the Brindley Mill museum.[1] James Brindley. ...
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Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour or lumber production, or metal shaping (rolling, grinding or wire drawing). ...
The Palais du Louvre in Paris, which houses the Musée du Louvre, one of the worlds most famous museums, and most certainly the largest. ...
William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, lived and worked in Leek between 1875 and 1878. Local rumour[citation needed] suggests that he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877 as a result of his successful campaign to prevent the demolition of the building that now houses Greystones tearoom, winner of the Tea Council's[2] Tea Room of the Year award for 2000. This page is about William Morris, the writer, designer and socialist. ...
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The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) was founded by William Morris in 1877, to oppose what he saw as the insensitive renovation of ancient buildings then occurring in Victorian England. ...
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Tourist Attractions & Leisure Nearby Rudyard Lake is a popular tourist attraction and home to the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway, running along its eastern shores. Other nearby local attractions are the local football club Leek Town F.C., Alton Towers, the cultural and leisure facilities of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and the Peak District National Park. Leek's "Double Sunset" also attracts many tourists. Leek is also visited regularly by people from its twinned town Este in Italy. Rudyard Lake boat house Rudyard miniature railway Lakeside homes Rudyard Lake is a reservoir in Staffordshire constructed in 1797/8 to feed the Caldon Canal by the Trent and Mersey Canal company. ...
Excalibur at Rudyard Lake Steam Railway The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway is a superb minimum gauge railway and the third railway of any gauge to run along the side of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire. ...
Leek Town F.C. are a football club who play in Leek, England, in the Unibond Northern Premier League. ...
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Local transport The town of Leek is served by First with a regular number 18 bus service (or 16 on an alternative route via Cellarhead). There are also frequent bus services to Sheffield and the nearby town of Buxton using 118 bus.
Trivia - One legend in Leek is the one of the Mermaid Pool. It is said the pool is bottomless and that the mermaid appears by the lake and draws men to their deaths.[3]
- There is also a yearly phenomenon known as the 'Double Sunset'. This event, first recognised by Dr. Plot, occurs when the sun appears to set behind Bosley Cloud, subsequently reappearing in the hollow of the hill's vertical northern side, before setting again. It occurs three or four days before the summer solstice. Dr. Plot's detailed account can be found in his book 'The Natural History of Staffordshire.'
- Leek's Coat of Arms is made up of a Saltire Shield. On the top is the Staffordshire Knot, either side is the famous leek 'Double Sunset' and below a gold garb. The crest is a mural crown with three Mulberry leaves on a Mount of Heather on top of which a Moorcock is resting his claw on a small-weave Shuttle. The motto 'ARTE FAVENTE NIL DESPERANDUM' translates to: Our skill assisting us, we have no cause for despair. The Coat of Arms was granted on 7th May 1956.[citation needed]
- Leek High Specialist Technology School uses three local rivers as their house names: "Dane", Manifold" and "Churnet".[citation needed]
- Westwood College uses two towns in staffordshire as two of their house names: "Lichfield" and "Stafford". It also uses the names of two people associated with the school for the names of the other two houses: "Davenport" after the person who built the old part of the school building and "Johnson" after the person who turned the old part of the school from a manor house into an actual school
- Leek has more public houses per square mile than any other town in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
- In the grave yard at St. Edward's Church there is a gravestone of a person called James Robinson who died in 1788 and supposedly lived for 438 years
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