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A History of the County of Stafford - Volume VII: Leek and the Moorlands (Hardcover)
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A History of the County of Stafford - Volume VII: Leek and the Moorlands (Hardcover)
Series: Victoria County History
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This volume tells the story of the town of Leek and the north-east
corner of Staffordshire adjoining Cheshire and Derbyshire. Besides
the large parish of Leek, it contains Alstonefield, another
extensive parish, Horton, and Sheen. The dramatic scenery includes
the Roaches, an outcrop of Millstone Grit above the Leek-Buxton
road, Rudyard Lake, a canal reservoir developed as a tourist
attraction in the mid 19th century, and the river Dove, with its
memories of Charles Cotton of Beresford Hall and his friend Izaak
Walton. Flash, north of the Roaches, is the highest village in
England. The area contains numerous Bronze Age barrows and is
crossed by a Roman road. In the Anglo-Saxon period churches were
established at Alstonefield and Leek, and parts of early crosses
survive at both places. There are also indications of Scandinavian
settlement. For a century and a half after the Norman Conquest the
earls of Chester were dominant, and the Audley family succeeded to
much of their power. Another important landowner was the Cistercian
abbey of Dieulacres near Leek, founded by Earl Ranulph in 1214.
From the later 16th century the main landowners in the Alstonefield
area were the Harpur (later Harpur-Crewe) family, while in the 18th
century the earls of Macclesfield became influential in the Leek
area. Leek, "Queen of the Moorlands," was established as a borough
by Earl Ranulph early in the 13th century, and it has remained a
market and administrative centre. Silk working was in progress
there by the 1670s but remained a domestic industry until the 19th
century when it became concentrated in factories. The urban
landscape still owes much of its appearance to William Sugden and
his son Larner, whose architectural practice flourished during the
later 19th century. Leek's textile industry remains important,
although silk production ceased in 1994. The largest employer in
the early 1990s was the Britannia Building Society, which developed
from the Leek and Moor-lands Permanent Benefit Building Society of
1856 to become one of the leading building societies in the
country.
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