LEIGH, a parish in Uttoxeter district, Stafford; on the river Blythe and the North Stafford railway, 4½ miles WNW of Uttoxeter. It contains the hamlets of Church Leigh, Lower Leigh, Upper Leigh, Dodsley, Painley-Hill, Middleton-Green, Lower Nobut, Upper Nobut, and Withington, and the township of Field; and it has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stafford. Acres, 7,055. Real property, £10,796. Pop. in 1851,1,074; in 1861,986. Houses, 199. The property is much subdivided. Much of the land is in pasture. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £748.* Patron, Lord Bagot. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1846, at a cost of £8,272; is cruciform, with central embattled tower; and contains an altar-tomb, of 1523, to Sir John and Lady Aston. There are a national school for girls, an endowed school with £67 a year, and charities £87.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))