LEAKE (EAST), a village and a parish in the district of Loughborough and county of Nottingham. The village stands on an affluent of the river Soar, 2 miles N of the boundary with Leicestershire, 3¾ ESE of Kegworth r. station and 5 N by E of Loughborough; communicates, by post, with Loughborough; has hiring fairs at Candlemas, and on the first Tuesday and last Friday of November; and is a polling place.—The parish comprises 2, 540 acres. Real property, 4, 899. Pop., 1, 059. Houses, 245. The property is much subdivided. Framework knitting is largely carried on. Theliving is a rectory, united with the rectory of West Leake, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £719.* Patron, the Rev. J. Bateman. The church is later English; consists of nave, aisle, and large chancel, with tower and spire; and was recently in bad condition. There are a large Baptist chapel, a recent Methodist chapel, a large endowed school, with £49 a year, and charities £31.

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