Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Leek. You may be able to find further references to Leek in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
LEEK	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Leek.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRADNOP	a township	Imperial
Cawdry	hamlet	Bartholomew
CAWDRY	a detached portion of Bradnop township	Imperial
DIEULACRES	a hamlet	Imperial
Dieulacresse	hamlet and vestiges of abbey	Bartholomew
Endon	village and township	Bartholomew
ENDON	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Fold	hamlet	Bartholomew
Heaton	township	Bartholomew
HEATON	a township	Imperial
Leek and Lowe	township	Bartholomew
LEEK-FRITH	a township and a sub-district	Imperial
Longsdon	hamlet	Bartholomew
LONGSDON	a township	Imperial
LOWE	a township	Imperial
Meerbrook	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
MEERBROOK	a chapelry	Imperial
Onecote	township and village	Bartholomew
ONECOTE	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Over Bradnop	village	Bartholomew
Rudyard	township and railway station	Bartholomew
RUDYARD	a township	Imperial
Rushton	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
RUSHTON	two townships and a chapelry	Imperial
Stanley	hamlet	Bartholomew
STANLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Tittesworth	township	Bartholomew
TITTISWORTH	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Leek within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Lowe	0	3
Dieulacres	0	2
Longsdon	0	2
Bradnop	0	2
Tittesworth	0	2
Staffordshire Moorlands	2	0
Rudyard	0	2
Basford	0	2
Meerbrook	0	2
Gratton	0	2
Leekfrith	0	2
Cheddleton	0	2
Horton	0	2
Endon	0	2
Onecote	0	2
Wetley Rocks	0	2
Ipstones	0	2
Heaton	0	2
Consall	0	2
Bagnall	0	2