What is "leekfrith"

thumb|St Matthew's Church, Meerbrook thumb|Abbey Green Leekfrith is a civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands, in Staffordshire, England, north of the town of Leek. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 363.

It is an area between the River Churnet which is near Leek, and the River Dane (the boundary with Cheshire) and its tributary Black Brook. The civil parishes of Heaton and Tittesworth are to the west and east.

The area includes the villages of Abbey Green and Meerbrook, the Roaches, a rocky ridge in the north-east, and most of Tittesworth Reservoir. A chasm known as Lud's Church is near the River Dane; A hill named Gun is at the western boundary. The village of Upper Hulme is near the eastern boundary.

The ground is of boulder clay, and the underlying rock is millstone grit. The soil is loam and clay. The land is used mostly as pasture.