West Leake

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West Leake
West Leake shown within Nottinghamshire
Population	110
Parish	West Leake
District	Rushcliffe
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LOUGHBOROUGH
Postcode district	LE12
Dialling code	01509
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Nottinghamshire

Coordinates: 52°49′59″N 1°13′13″W / 52.83311, -1.2203

West Leake (pronounced /wɛst liːk/) is a small village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire. It is on the Kingston Brook, between East Leake (to the east) and Kingston to the west. The parish church is dedicated to St Helena^[1].

It is sufficiently small that it has a parish meeting rather than a parish council. Its population has declined from an 1853 estimate of 190 ^[2] when the village was owned by Lord Middleton to around 110^[3] in 2007. One of the earliest mentions of East and West Leake is in the Domesday book where it is listed amongst the lands given to Henry de Ferrers ^[4] by the King. The land required 21 ploughs in total, there was a mill and a church and it was valued at seven pounds.

A Dew pond is situated on the hill above the village towards West Leake hills.