On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Leek is a market leek recipes and civil parish in the county of Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet.
It is the administrative centre for the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council. Leek’s coat of arms is made up of a saltire shield. On the top is the Stafford knot, either side is the Leek double sunset and below a gold garb. Our skill assisting us, we have no cause for despair. The town had a regular cattle market for hundreds of years, reflecting its role as a centre of local farming. The mills from the town’s textile era remain and many have now been converted into housing.
Britannia Building Society, had its headquarters in the town and was a large local employer. Staffordshire Moorlands which is situated on the southern uplands of the Pennines. Leek is situated at the foot of the Peak District National Park and is therefore often referred to as the Gateway to the Peak District, although the town is more often referred to as the Queen of the Moorlands. William the Conqueror who held it at the time of the Domesday Survey. Listed buildings include the original parish church, St Edward the Confessor’s, and a Victorian church, All Saints’, designed by Richard Norman Shaw. Many of Leek’s buildings were built by the family architectural practice of the Sugdens. He was an architect and his work on the design of the railway stations for the Churnet Valley Railway brought him to the area.