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Team, Place & City Details

Leek Town F.C.

Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek, Staffordshire, playing in the Northern Premier League Division One West, the eighth tier of English football. The team, nicknamed "The Blues", play their home games at Harrison Park.

Leek Aleer

Leek Aleer is a professional Australian Rules Footballer. He was selected by the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the 2021 AFL draft.

Glossop North End A.F.C.

Glossop North End Association Football Club is a football club in Glossop, Derbyshire, England. Formerly members of the Football League, they are currently in the Northern Premier League Division One West and are members of the Derbyshire County Football Association.

Leek
Leek

A leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek .

Leek, Staffordshire
Leek, Staffordshire

Leek is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet 10 miles north east of Stoke-on-Trent. It is an ancient borough and was granted its royal charter in 1214.

Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway

The Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Staffordshire, England that operated between 1904 and 1934. The line mainly carried milk from dairies in the region, acting as a feeder to the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge system.

Leek Wootton
Leek Wootton

Leek Wootton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe, in the Warwick district, in the county of Warwickshire, England, approximately 2 miles south of Kenilworth and 2.5 miles north of Warwick. It lies in the triangle created by Kenilworth, Warwick and Leamington Spa.

Leek (UK Parliament constituency)

Leek was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Centred on the market town of Leek, it was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished nearly 100 years later for the 1983 general election.

Leek moth
Leek moth

The leek moth or onion leaf miner is a species of moth of family Acrolepiidae (formerly Glyphipterigidae) and the genus Acrolepiopsis. The species is native to Europe and Siberia, but is also found in North America, where it is an invasive species.

Leekes
Leekes

Leekes is a Welsh based retailer of home furnishings, home improvement goods and related items. The company was established in the Rhondda in 1897 and has six department stores in South Wales, South West England and the Midlands.

Leek (Churnet Valley) railway station

Leek railway station is the proposed and future terminus of the Churnet Valley Railway and is currently awaiting construction. It will be the second railway station in Leek.

Glossop
Glossop

Glossop is a market town in the High Peak, Derbyshire, England, about 15 miles east of Manchester, 24 miles (39 km) west of Sheffield and 32 miles (51 km) north of the county town, Matlock. Glossop is near Derbyshire's county borders with Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

Glossophobia
Glossophobia

Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking. The word glossophobia derives from the Greek γλῶσσα glōssa, meaning tongue, and φόβος phobos, fear or dread.