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A fascinating photograph showing Leigh Road at its junction with Market Street.This corner of Eastleigh has changed significantly: the new buildings interposed with the older ones on the left-hand

A fascinating photograph showing Leigh Road at its junction with Market Street.

Trendy Top Pic fashions have moved into Milling's old shop, but Peter Leigh & Son's traditional grocers survive next door.

For centuries, Stoneleigh was home to the dozens of estate workers employed by the Leighs.

Danetre Café on the left, known as Leigh's, is where the Daventry Town Ladies Hockey Team had tea for 1s per person in the 1930s.

Its replacement was this column, 60 feet high and bearing the following inscription: 'This column was erected by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, by the permission of John Shaw Leigh, Esq,

Other local churches, claimed to be 'old and steady', are Shere, Leigh, Mickleham, Abinger, Wotten and Betchworth: they have stood for centuries.

A book has been published giving the story of Leigh House.

Its replacement was this column, 60 feet high and bearing the following inscription: 'This column was erected by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, by the permission of John Shaw Leigh, Esq,

This view of the village on the side of the valley gives a glimpse on the left of the priory which William Leigh, who had just been converted to the Catholic faith, had built; the Dominicans moved into

We are now further along Leigh Road and looking back towards the station.

William Leigh bought the Woodchester estate in 1845.

Leigh was a market town that prospered on coal, cotton, and silk.

The church is St Paul's, Widnes' parish church, which opened in 1884 on land given in 1878 in the will of the late J G Leigh.

The majestic elms in the background were lost in the 1930s, and the barn on the left was removed in 1987, while the hovel in between was painstakingly removed and re-erected in its entirety in Leigh.

We are now in the centre of Eastleigh; in fact, we are looking from the station along Leigh Road, originally a farm track but steadily improved and extended as the town grew.

In nearby Westbury Leigh, part of the parish of Westbury, cloth mills and weavers' cottages remind us of its past.

Inside the church is a fine memorial to Sir John Leigh, who died in 1629.

Two of his later factories survive in Leigh Street (though they are no longer furniture factories): a three-storey one of 1901, brick built, and a much more ambitious one of 3 storeys built in

It burned down in 1908, and the front block was rebuilt by Thomas Thurlow, who also designed Walter Birch's factory in Leigh Street.

The flat landscape of Mobberley bred one of our country`s most famous mountaineers, George Leigh Mallory.

The River Brett curves around the farmhouse, now at the blocked end of the village street nearest to Monks Eleigh.

The weather- boarded former water mill, trading as Brent Eleigh Tools (centre left), was converted into a dwelling c1990; the mill machinery and stones were preserved in the conversion.

The central gabled window is inscribed WB1880, for Walter Brown of Brent Eleigh Hall.