My website gives you an in depth look at what life was like in the picturesque mining village of Leycett, which was built in what my father describes as “Gods Country”.
The village was situated between Madeley and Silverdale.Records show that there were families living in Leycett in around the1840's (there are early census entries to show this) prior to this there were dwellings, but they were never really documented.The main village as we know it is documented on cenus entries in 1851 (which can be seen on the census pages of this website).The colliery was already fully manned and working by this time as were the tile and iron works.I have found records to show that people worked at Leycett coalbur in 1710.However I have researched local parish records and there are baptisms ,mariages and burials as far back as the early 1600's but the area that we know as Leycett was then documented as Levershede,Leasitt,Leysitt,Leasett and Lysot aswell as various other spellings - wether this is down to the stone mason, Preist or scribes at the time or just that people couldnt spell very well I do not know. Further research shows that Leycett (then known as Levershede) was an area which was occupied and primitivley mined by Romans some years BC.
Here you will find photographs of Leycett as it is now and of those glorious by gone days that have been captured on film so that we can be reminded of the way we once were. You will also find stories, statements and historical information on this website that will give an insight of what life in Leycett was like.
Anybody wishing to add to this site or ask questions regarding the site content please feel free to email me at kathryn641@hotmail.com and I will be only to happy to help and advise in any way I can.



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