Leck
| Leck | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 Leck Beck | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD643768 |
| Location: | 54°11’6"N, 2°32’49"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 260 (2011) |
| Post town: | Carnforth |
| Postcode: | LA6 |
| Dialling code: | 01524 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Lancaster |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Morecambe and Lunesdale |
Leck is a civil parish in northern Lancashire, adjacent to the borders with Westmorland and Yorkshire. The civil parish originates as the township of the ancient parish of Tunstall, and had a population of 189 at the 2001 census,[1] increasing to 260 at the 2011 census.[2] It is located next to the Leck Beck close to the main A65 road, two miles south-east of town of Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmorland.
The Church of St Peter was built in 1878-79 and burnt down in 1913, but was accurately re-built in 1915.[3]
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. In the Carboniferous to Jurassic periods these major earth movements formed the dramatic landscape of Lonsdale and the Aire Gap.
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Leck) |
- ↑ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Lancaster Retrieved 12 February 2010
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125517&c=Leck&d=16&e=62&g=6441578&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1433760762797&enc=1. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ↑ 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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