How Did Leek In Staffordshire Get Its Name?
In 1214 Earl Ranulph founded a Cistercian abbey beside the Churnet a mile north of the town in Leekfrith, naming it Dieulacres. He granted Leek church to the monks in the early 1220s, and in 1232 he gave them the manor of Leek. How old is the town of Leek Staffordshire? It is an ancient …