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	The village<ref name="Telling Lives">{{cite web \|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2005/05/10/telling_lives_alison_bolt_the_end.shtml\|title= The End\|accessdate=2007-03-03 \|last= Bolt\|first= Alison\|date= 2006-04-25\|publisher= ]}}</ref><ref name="Photographic Memories">{{cite book \|last= Swain\|first= Robert\|title= Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories\|accessdate= 2007-03-19\|publisher= ]\|isbn= 1-85937-816-1\|url=http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/cumbria/leece/leece.htm}}.</ref> is built around a ] and a ],<ref name="Photographic Memories"/> and Henry Armer & Son, a ] established in 1914 that has since become an agricultural engineering business.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://www.henryarmer.co.uk/index.htm\|title= Henry Armer and Son\|publisher= Henry Armer & Son\|accessdate=2007-03-03 }}</ref>		The village<ref name="Telling Lives">{{cite web \|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2005/05/10/telling_lives_alison_bolt_the_end.shtml\|title= The End\|accessdate=2007-03-03 \|last= Bolt\|first= Alison\|date= 2006-04-25\|publisher= ]}}</ref><ref name="Photographic Memories">{{cite book \|last= Swain\|first= Robert\|title= Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories\|accessdate= 2007-03-19\|publisher= ]\|isbn= 1-85937-816-1\|url=http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/cumbria/leece/leece.htm}}.</ref> is built around a ] and a ],<ref name="Photographic Memories"/> and Henry Armer & Son, a ] established in 1914 that has since become an agricultural engineering business.<ref>{{cite web \|url= http://www.henryarmer.co.uk/index.htm\|title= Henry Armer and Son\|publisher= Henry Armer & Son\|accessdate=2007-03-03 }}</ref>

	For ] purposes, Leece belongs to Aldingham Parish Council.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://aldingham.org.uk/\|title=		For ] purposes, Leece belongs to Aldingham Parish Council.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://aldingham.org.uk/\|title=Aldingham Parish Council}}</ref>
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	File:Leece postcard 1904.jpg\|A postcard showing Leece, dated 1904. The tarn can be seen in the foreground, and the old ] church on the far right.		File:Leece postcard 1904.jpg\|A postcard showing Leece, dated 1904. The tarn can be seen in the foreground, and the old ] church on the far right.
	File:LeeceDuckPond.jpg\|The Leece tarn.		File:LeeceDuckPond.jpg\|The Leece tarn in 2008.
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Not to be confused with Lecce. This article is about the village. For people, see Leece (surname). For the museum in Peel, Isle of Man, see Leece Museum.

Human settlement in England

Leece
Moss House
LeeceLocation in South LakelandShow map of the former South Lakeland districtLeeceLocation within CumbriaShow map of Cumbria
OS grid reference	SD242693
Civil parish	Aldingham
Unitary authority	Westmorland and Furness
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ULVERSTON
Postcode district	LA12
Dialling code	01229

Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West

UK Parliament	Barrow and Furness
List of places UK England Cumbria 54°06′50″N 3°09′32″W / 54.114°N 3.159°W / 54.114; -3.159

Leece is a village on the Furness peninsula in Cumbria, England, between the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness.

Amenities

The village is built around a tarn and a village green, and Henry Armer & Son, a smithy established in 1914 that has since become an agricultural engineering business.

For parish council purposes, Leece belongs to Aldingham Parish Council.

History

Historically part of Lancashire, the name Leece is probably from the Old English leah, which means 'woodland clearing', and the plural of which is Leas. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Lies, in the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig. It appears later in 1269 as Lees.

Leece used to contain the United Methodist Free Church. It was founded in 1881, but closed in 1912. The building, which was taken down in the late 1920s, can still be seen on some photographs from the period. The church did not have a cemetery. St. Matthew's Church, in the village of Dendron, built in 1642, also served the village, as both a church and a school. It was funded by Robert Dickinson, a citizen of London, who had formerly lived in Leece.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Leece played a part in the Lady in the Lake murder trial. Gordon Park, a resident of Leece, bludgeoned his 30-year-old wife Carol to death with an ice axe, then dumped her body in Coniston Water, telling police investigating her disappearance that she had left their home for another man.