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7 unusual facts about Leck


Bökingharde

In January 2008, it was merged with the Ämter Karrharde, Süderlügum and Wiedingharde, and the municipalities Niebüll and Leck to form the Amt Südtondern.

Heinkel He 162

/JG 1 moved to an airfield at nearby Ludwigslust and, less than a week later, moved again to an airfield at Leck, near the Danish border.

Lack Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania

It was named by Irish settlers most likely after Lack, County Fermanagh, Ireland, although also possibly after Leck, of which there are a few places of that name in the Province of Ulster in Ireland.

Leck, Lancashire

In the Carboniferous to Jurassic periods these major earth movements formed the dramatic landscape of Lonsdale and the Aire Gap in Craven District

Lough Foyle

In 1792 the four-mile Strabane Canal was constructed from the tidal waters of Lough Foyle at Leck, to Strabane.

Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth

He moved to another home, Leck Hall at Leck, Lancashire, on his estates, which was more convenient to his disability, leaving Gawthorpe Hall to his aunt, Rachel, who lived on at Gawthorpe Hall until her death in 1967.

Wiedingharde

In January 2008, it was merged with the Ämter Karrharde, Süderlügum and Bökingharde, and the municipalities Niebüll and Leck to form the Amt Südtondern.


River Leck

The River Leck rises from a spring next to silverstone circuit near Whittlebury park golf course near Silverstone and flows through Shrines wood and Shirehill Wood and past Lovel wood it then flows past St Nicholas Church at lillingstone Dayrell.


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