East Leake

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East Leake
St Marys church
East Leake shown within Nottinghamshire
Population	7000
OS grid reference	SK5501726086
Parish	East Leake
District	Rushcliffe
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LOUGHBOROUGH
Postcode district	LE12
Dialling code	01509
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Nottinghamshire

Coordinates: 52°49′45″N 1°10′00″W / 52.829167, -1.183333

East Leake (pronounced /iːst liːk/), from the Anglo-Saxon name "lecche" the word for the water meadows beside the brook which had various forms over time before becoming "Leake", is a large village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, although its closest town and postal address is Loughborough across the border in Leicestershire. It has a population of around 7,000. The original village was located on the Sheepwash Brook, Kingston Brook also runs through the village. Near the centre of the village is the historic St. Mary's ^[1] Parish Church which dates back to the 11th Century.

1 Local amenities
2 Transport
3 Churches
4 Neighbouring villages
5 References
6 Publications
7 External links

[edit] Local amenities

4 schools
- Arley House PNEU School
- Brookside primary school
- Lantern Lane primary school
- Harry Carlton Comprehensive (Secondary School)
Leisure centre with swimming pool
3 pubs (Nag's Head, Three Horseshoes and Bull's Head)
Co-op supermarket
Post office
A variety of other small shops
Police station
Fire station
Amateur theatre group (elaps)
Cricket, rugby and Bowls clubs
"Meadow Park", a local nature reserve used by dog-walkers and cyclists.

[edit] Transport

East Leake lies close to the A60 and A6006 major roads and within 5 miles of the M1 motorway. Nottingham City Transport operate a frequent (30mins at peak times) bus service (no. 1) between Nottingham and Loughborough under the "South Notts" brand. An East Leake railway station used to exist, on the Great Central Railway. That line was controversially broken up in the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. The stretch from the point where the Great Central crossed the Midland Main Line through East Leake to Ruddington was retained to allow freight trains to travel to British Gypsum's works and to the MoD ordnance depot at Ruddington, but later fell into disuse. More recently this stretch has been re-opened as a heritage line running steam and heritage diesel locos between Ruddington and Rushcliffe Halt. In the long term, the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) hope to reinstate a passenger service from East Leake station, although the fact that the area alongside the station has been redeveloped for housing would preclude the provision of public car parking in the area of the station.

[edit] Churches

There are five churches in the village:

St. Mary's Parish Church (Church of England within the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham).
Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic Church
Methodist Church
Baptist Church
East Leake Evangelical Church (meets in the Village Hall)