Leek

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Leek

Total population

20,768

Coordinates53.11°, -2.02°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Leek is a market town and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of the county of Staffordshire, England. The town lies on the River Churnet, 10 miles (16 km) north east of Stoke-on-Trent. In 2021 it had a population of 19,385.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Anna Watkins

British rower

Averil Cameron

English historian of late antiquity (1940–2026)

James Ford

English composer, musician, and record producer

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Donald Nicholson

English biochemist (1916–2012)

Lee Pearson

British para equestrian

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Percival J. Illsley

Canadian composer (1865–1924)

Philip Brocklehurst

British explorer (1887–1975)

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Roy Fowler

British athletics competitor (1934-2009)

T. E. Hulme

English Imagist poet and critic (1883–1917)

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John Archer

British footballer (1941-2021)

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John Bartier

Belgian historian (1915–1980)

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Mark Sugden

Irish rugby union player (1902-1990)

Alan Muntz

British consulting aeronautical engineer (1899-1985)

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Arthur Rowley

Footballer (1870-?)

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Arthur Shallcross

English football manager (1876–1950)

Jonathan Wilkes

English actor-singer (born 1978)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Biddulph
  6.2 mi away
• Cheadle
  8.3 mi away
• Tunstall
  8.4 mi away
• Congleton
  8.7 mi away
• Stoke
  9.7 mi away
• Buxton
  11.6 mi away
• Bollington
  13.5 mi away
• Sandbach
  14.3 mi away
• Stone
  14.9 mi away
• Poynton
  17.3 mi away
• Middlewich
  18.5 mi away
• Nantwich
  20.8 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Leek

Annual report of the Memorial Cottage Hospital, Leek

Leek Memorial Cottage Hospital (Leek, England) · 1938

[Report 1918]

Leek (England). Rural District Council · 1918

[Report 1957]

Leek (England). Rural District Council · 1957

[Report 1903]

Leek (England). Urban District Council · 1903

[Report 1920]

Leek (England). Urban District Council · 1920

Leek

Staffordshire (England) · 1970

Directories of Leek

Staffordshire (England). Education Department. · 1971

Kidsgrove and Leek

Ordnance Survey · 1979

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers