Leck, Lancashire

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Leck
Leck Beck
Leck Leck shown within Lancashire
Population	189 (2001)
OS grid reference	SD643768
Civil parish	Leck
District	Lancaster
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARNFORTH
Postcode district	LA6
Dialling code	01524
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Morecambe and Lunesdale
List of places UK England Lancashire

Leck is a civil parish in the English county of Lancashire. The parish of Leck had a population of 189 recorded in the 2001 census,^[1] It is located next to the Leck Beck close to the main A65, 2 miles (3.2 km) south east of the Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale. Administratively it forms part of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster itself being 18 miles (29 km) away.

The Church of St Peter was built in 1878-79 and burnt down in 1913, but was accurately re-built in 1915.^[2]

Geology

Leck is located on two ancient geological fault lines: the Dent Fault and the Craven Fault. These meet at around 54°11′26″N 2°31′38″W / 54.190507°N 2.527339°W / 54.190507; -2.527339. In the Carboniferous to Jurassic periods these major earth movements formed the dramatic landscape of Lonsdale and the Aire Gap in Craven District

↑ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Lancaster Retrieved 12 February 2010
↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hartwell, Clare (revision) (2009). The Buildings of England – Lancashire: North. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 419–420. ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9.

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Cities & towns

Villages
& suburbs

Parishes

Transport

Furness and Midland Joint Railway Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works Lancaster Corporation Tramways Leeds to Morecambe Line "Little" North Western Railway Morecambe Branch Line

Railway stations	Bare Lane Carnforth Heysham Port Lancaster Morecambe Silverdale Wennington

Disused stations	Arkholme Ashton Hall Bay Horse Borwick Galgate Halton Hest Bank Kirkby Lonsdale Lancaster (Greaves) Lancaster Green Ayre Morecambe Euston Road Morecambe Promenade

Churches

Lancaster	Cathedral Cemetery Christ Church St John the Evangelist St Michael, Lancaster Moor Hospital St Paul, Scotforth Priory Ripley School St Thomas

Morecambe	St Barnabas St Christopher, Bare Clark Street Congregational Holy Trinity St John the Divine St Laurence

Elsewhere	Arkholme: St John the Baptist Aughton: St Saviour Bolton-le-Sands: Holy Trinity Borwick: St Mary Capernwray: Chapel Cockerham: St Michael Dolphinholme: St Mark Ellel: St John Glasson: Christ Church Gressingham: St John the Evangelist Halton: St Wilfrid Heysham: St Patrick St Peter Hornby: St Margaret Leck: St Peter Melling: St Wilfrid Over Kellet: St Cuthbert Over Wyresdale: Christ Church Overton: St Helen Quernmore: St Peter Slyne-with-Hest: St Luke Tatham: Good Shepherd St James the Less Tunstall: St John the Baptist Warton: St Oswald Whittington: St Michael Wray: Holy Trinity Yealand Conyers: St Mary

Other
buildings &
structures

Lancaster	Ashton Memorial Custom House Duke's Playhouse Grand Theatre The Gregson Centre HM Prison Lancaster Farms Judges Lodgings Lancaster Blackfriars Lancaster Castle Lancaster City Museum Lune Aqueduct Lune Millennium Bridge Royal Albert Hospital Skerton Bridge The Storey Windermere House

Morecambe	Midland Hotel Winter Gardens North Western Hotel

Elsewhere	Abbeystead House Ashton Hall Borwick Hall Capernwray Hall Carnforth War Memorial Cockerham Priory Cockersand Abbey Escowbeck Hazelwood Hall Heysham nuclear power station Hornby Castle Hornby Priory Hornby Village Institute Leighton Hall Loyn Bridge Old Rectory, Warton Thurland Castle Wennington Hall Wyresdale Abbey

Parks &
reserves

Sport

Media

Topography

AONBs	Arnside and Silverdale Forest of Bowland

Hills	Clougha Pike Gragareth Green Hill Grit Fell Hawthornthwaite Fell Leck Fell Ward's Stone Warton Crag White Hill Wolfhole Crag

Rivers	Cocker Conder Greta Grizedale Hindburn Keer Lune Roeburn Wenning Wyre

Other waterways	Artle Beck Lancaster Canal Leck Beck

Politics

Education

v t e Schools in the City of Lancaster

Primary	Overton St. Helen's C.E. Primary School

Comprehensive	Carnforth High School Central Lancaster High School Heysham High School Morecambe High School Our Lady's Catholic College Queen Elizabeth School Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy Skerton Community High School

Further Education Colleges	Lancaster and Morecambe College The Adult College

Grammar	Lancaster Girls' Grammar School Lancaster Royal Grammar School

Independent	Lancaster Steiner School

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Unitary authorities	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool

Boroughs or districts	City of Lancaster City of Preston Burnley Chorley Fylde Hyndburn Pendle Ribble Valley Rossendale South Ribble West Lancashire Wyre

Major settlements	Accrington Adlington Bacup Barnoldswick Blackburn Blackpool Brierfield Burnley Carnforth Chorley Clayton-le-Moors Cleveleys Clitheroe Colne Darwen Earby Fleetwood Garstang Great Harwood Haslingden Kirkham Lancaster Leyland Longridge Lytham St Annes Morecambe Nelson Ormskirk Oswaldtwistle Padiham Penwortham Poulton-le-Fylde Preesall Preston Rawtenstall Rishton Skelmersdale Thornton Wesham Whitworth See also: List of civil parishes in Lancashire

Rivers	Calder Darwen Douglas Hodder Irwell Lune Ribble Wyre

Canals	Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool

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