Leece

Leece

Infobox UK place
official_name= Leece
country= England
region= North West England
os_grid_reference=
latitude= 54.114767
longitude= -3.160415
post_town= ULVERSTON
postcode_area= LA
postcode_district= LA12 [cite web |url= http://www.postcode-info.co.uk/leece-info-63806.html|title= Information on Leece|accessdate=2007-05-22 |publisher= postcode-info.co.uk]
dial_code= 01229
constituency_westminster= Barrow and Furness
civil_parish= Aldingham
shire_district= Barrow-in-Furness
shire_county= Cumbria

Leece is a village on the Furness peninsula in Cumbria, England, situated between the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness. It is primarily agricultural and features a few services.

Amenities

The villagecite book |last= Swain|first= Robert|title= Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories|accessdate= 2007-03-19|publisher= The Francis Frith Collection|isbn= 1-85937-816-1 [http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/cumbria/leece/leece.htm See excerpt] .] cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2005/05/10/telling_lives_alison_bolt_the_end.shtml|title= The End|accessdate=2007-03-03 |last= Bolt|first= Alison|date= 2006-04-25|publisher= BBC] is built around a tarn and a village green, and is home to a Bed and Breakfast, [cite web |url= http://www.4hotels.co.uk/uk/ulverston.html|title= Ulverston hotels|accessdate=2007-03-03 |publisher= 4hotels.co.uk] The Copper Dog pubcite web |url= http://www.travelpublishing.co.uk/HiddenPlacesLakeDistrictandCumbria/Cumbria/LDC29013.htm|title= The Copper Dog|accessdate=2007-03-03 |publisher= travelpublishing.co.uk] and Henry Armer & Son, a smithy established in 1914 that has since become an agricultural engineering business. [cite web |url= http://www.henryarmer.co.uk/index.htm|title= Henry Armer and Son|publisher= Henry Armer & Son|accessdate=2007-03-03 ]

History

The name Leece is probably from the Old English "leah", which means 'woodland clearing', and the plural of which is "Leas". It was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Lies", and in 1269 as "Lees". [cite book |last= Mills|first= David|title= The Place Names of Lancashire|year= 1976|publisher= B. T Batsford|isbn= 0 7134 3248 9]

Leece used to contain the United Methodist Free Church. It was founded in 1881, but closed in 1912. The building, which was taken down in the late 1920s, can still be seen on some photographs from the period. The church did not have a cemetery. [cite web |url= http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Aldingham/LeeceUnitedMethodistFreeChurch.shtml
title= United Methodist Free Church, Leece|accessdate=2007-05-22 |last= Stringer|first= Phil|date= 2007-02-14|publisher= GENUKI
] St. Matthews Church, in the hamlet of Dendron, built in 1642, also served the village, as both a church and a school. It was funded for by Robert Dickinson, a citizen of London, who had formally lived in Leece. [cite web |url= http://www.explorelowfurness.co.uk/stmatthew.htm|title= St. Matthews Church, Dendron|accessdate=2007-05-22 |publisher= Explore Low Furness]

In the 1990s and 2000s, Leece played a part in the Lady in the Lake murder trial. Gordon Park, a resident of Leece, bludgeoned his 30-year-old wife Carol to death with an ice axe, then dumped her body in Coniston Water, telling police investigating her disappearance that she had left their home for another man. [cite news |first= Russell|last= Jackson|title=Justice for the Lady in the Lake as husband gets life for murder |url= http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=110122005|work= The Scotsman|date= 2005-01-29|accessdate=2007-01-26 ]

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External links

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Leece,+Cumbria,+England&layer=&sll=54.114767,-3.160415&sspn=0.006415,0.027122&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=54.117182,-3.157883&spn=0.025657,0.10849&om=1&iwloc=addr Leece] on Google Maps.


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