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Lees Derbyshire Map

Traditional county: Derbyshire · District / Borough: South Derbyshire · Region: East Midlands

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Place	Lees
Traditional County	Derbyshire
District / Borough	South Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	52.931521
Longitude	-1.607833
Place Type	Village

About Lees

Lees rests as a quiet collection of dwellings within the rolling agricultural expanse of South Derbyshire. It lies 5.4 miles west of Derby (from Derby: bearing 275°T, OS grid SK 264 371), and is situated west-south-west of Kirk Langley village. The landscape here is defined by a slow, deliberate horizon where the light catches the stubborn ridges of ancient plough-work, hinting at the long-forgotten toil of earlier tenants. To the north-north-west, the low depression of Nuns Clough draws the evening mist into its hollow, cooling the air as it drifts across the nearby pastures. Lees maintains a composure born of isolation, far removed from the sharp clamour of the industrial corridors that bleed into the county from the east. The earth here holds the damp memory of winter, and the hedgerows possess a tangled, unkempt elegance that defies the tidiness of modern cultivation. A short distance to the west, the earth still bears the faint, sunken scars of a medieval village, a silent monument to those who once walked these same lanes. Lees remains a place where the passage of the day is marked not by clocks, but by the lengthening shadows that stretch across the fields toward the Radbourne Brook.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Nuns Clough (Valley) — 0.4 mi, 335° NNW
Shrunken Medieval Village And Moated Site At Thurvaston (Scheduled Monument) — 1.3 mi, 284° WNW · 2 ha
Dog Kennel Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.5 mi, 124° ESE
Cunnery Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.6 mi, 116° ESE
Radbourne Brook (River) — 1.7 mi, 166° SSE
Sharrow Hall Moated Site And Associated Road, Driveway, Dovecote, Enclosures And Ridge And Furrow (Scheduled Monument) — 1.7 mi, 264° W · 4 ha
Hardley Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.8 mi, 219° SW
Section Of Roman Road To The North-East Of Moor Lane, Kirk Langley (Scheduled Monument) — 1.8 mi, 076° ENE
The Burrows Gardens (Attraction) — 1.8 mi, 354° N
Flagshaw Brook (River) — 1.9 mi, 055° NE
Coppice Ponds (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.3 mi, 041° NE
Harepit Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 3.4 mi, 052° NE
Vicar Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 3.5 mi, 064° ENE
Ednaston Manor (Historic Park or Garden) — 3.5 mi, 333° NNW · 12 ha
Lion statue (Public Artwork) — 3.5 mi, 057° ENE
Kedleston Hall (Attraction) — 3.6 mi, 057° ENE
Hilton Gravel Pits Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.7 mi, 194° SSW · 31 ha
Kedleston Park Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.7 mi, 057° ENE · 94 ha
Barnes Green (Park) — 3.9 mi, 092° E
Hay Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 3.9 mi, 051° NE
Markeaton Park (Park) — 4.2 mi, 087° E
Serpentine Pond (Wetland) — 4.2 mi, 049° NE
Famous Trains Model Railway (Attraction) — 4.3 mi, 090° E
Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company (Theatre) — 4.9 mi, 090° E
Vernon Street Prison (County Gaol) (Attraction) — 4.9 mi, 096° E
Derby Gaol (Museum) — 5.0 mi, 095° E
Robert Ludlam Theatre (Theatre) — 5.1 mi, 081° E
Pickford's House Museum (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 096° E
Derby Museum and Art Gallery (Museum) — 5.4 mi, 096° E
Quarndon Topograph (Monument) — 5.4 mi, 062° ENE

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