Lower Leck in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Lower Leck is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Lower Leck is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Lower Leck.
Listed Buildings Near Lower Leck
Historic England records 26 listed buildings within about a mile of Lower Leck. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Stone Opposite High Lodge, on North-west Side of Entrance to Drive to Leck Hall - 0.15 km
- High Lodge - 0.16 km
- Church of St Peter - 0.3 km
- Leck Hill House - 0.45 km
- Heber House - 0.57 km
- Crow Trees and Barn Adjoining to South-east - 0.6 km
- Crow Trees Cottage and Barn Adjoining to South-west - 0.61 km
- Orangery West of Leck Hall - 0.63 km
- Leck Hall - 0.68 km
- Cart Shed Approx. 8 Metres North-east of Leck Hall - 0.71 km
- The Court House, Leck Hall - 0.72 km
- Hipping Hall - 0.72 km
- Wash House West of Rear Wing of Hipping Hall - 0.72 km
- Dovecote Approx. 30 Metres North-east of Leck Hall - 0.72 km
- House West of Hipping Hall - 0.74 km
- Farm Building Approx. 25 Metres North-east of Leck Hall - 0.74 km
- Milestone - 0.77 km
- High Leck Farmhouse - 0.79 km
- Fairthwaite Park House - 0.9 km
- Longlands Farmhouse - 0.92 km
- Boundary Stone - 1.05 km
- Boundary Stone - 1.09 km
- Cowan Bridge - 1.15 km
- Numbers 1, 2, 3 and the Flat, Bronte Cottage - 1.19 km
…and 2 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Lower Leck
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Lower Leck:
Lower Leck Today
Today Lower Leck lies within the administrative area of Lancaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 155 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Leck on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ireby - 1.4 km SE
- Thirnby Wood - 3.2 km W
- Casterton - 3.6 km NW
- Whittington - 4.0 km W
- Burton in Lonsdale - 4.1 km S
- Kirkby Lonsdale - 4.2 km NW
Heritage Around [Lower] Leck
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Chris Heaton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Heaton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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