Transport
;Roads Church Leigh lies 0.8 miles south of the A50 road, A50 that runs from Warrington to Leicester and is dualled on this section (between Stoke-on-Trent and the M1 motorway (Great Britain), M1 motorway). ;Rail The nearest railway station is at Uttoxeter railway station, Uttoxeter for the Crewe-Derby Line, Crewe to Derby line on the national network. Leigh railway station (Staffordshire), Leigh railway station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1848 and was closed in 1966 ;Other The nearest airport is East Midlands Airport between Derby, Loughborough and Nottingham.History
Church Leigh has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the great book Church Leigh is recorded by the name ''Lege''. The Aston family were the main landowners here in the seventeenth century. They were a junior branch of the prominent Staffordshire family of that name. The senior branch held the Scots title Lord Aston of Forfar.Notable people
* Sir William Aston (Irish judge), William Aston (1613 in Leigh - 1671) a barrister, politician, soldier and a justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). * Ernald Lane (born 1836) an Anglican priest, Rector of Leigh, then a prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral until 1888 when he became Archdeacon of Stoke; also a fine rower who represented Oxford in the 1858 Boat Race * Aaron Bell (politician), Aaron Bell (born 1980) Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme since 2019 lives in LeighLocalities
The civil parish of Leigh is centred on the nucleated village, clustered village of Church Leigh but has six satellite hamlet (place), hamlets. Separating the last four from the first is a buffer zone, field buffer including the River Blithe which flows south, via the Blithfield Reservoir lake south to feed the River Trent at Alrewas, Staffordshire.Withington
Withington is a linear settlement on five lanes that is separated to the west from Church Leigh by fields covering 300m; its oldest farmhouse is a listed building. Very well known for its pub and Lolo&Jojo.Upper Leigh
Upper Leigh is a linear settlement on five or six lanes that is separated to the south-east from Lower Leigh by fields covering 100m; it has three listed buildings: Moor Farm, Moor House Farm and Manor Farm.Lower Leigh
Lower Leigh is on a winding lane, separated from the village Primary School and recreation ground by less than 100 metres, to its north-west. The middle of the parish's three bridges along the lanes over the River Blithe is close to the centre of Lower Leigh. Next to this bridge is the aptly-named Brook Farmhouse.Morrilow Heath
This is the largest hamlet in area and population, and the most remote. To the south-west, it is on high ground and has a salient (geography), salient boundary as far as the source of the Sprink Brook.Middleton Green
Middleton Green is small in population and less than 200m north-east of Morrilow Heath and is south-west of Lower Leigh. Birchwood Park, an isolated farm, towards the Sprink Brook was historically a Manorialism, manor of sorts and is an architectural listed building, like the others in the parish which are non-ecclesiastical, at Grade II only. Big Wood, rises to the southern border here with extensive views over the rest of the villageBirchwood ParkDods Leigh
This traditionally agricultural cluster of buildings includes a chapel, and is south of Lower Leigh.OS Explorer Map 259, Derby, Ashbourne & Cheadle.Godstone
Just 300m south of Dods Leigh, a traditional manor forms a linear settlement, the traces of which can be made out from the properties, The Orchard, Godstone House and Godstone Cottage, as well as Old Woodcutter, the main four buildings.Field
Six farms make up a cluster which forms Field; the Sprink Brook discharges to the River Blythe at a point in the south of the hamlet.See also
*Listed buildings in Leigh, StaffordshireReferences
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