Shamefully, Cheshire County Council have allowed the sign for 'Little Leigh'- nr Northwich to become obscured by indigenous flora!

Little Leigh is the birthplace of the writer of the well known & popular ballad: The Farmer's Boy!

The original 'farmer's boy' of the song was the Reverend Thomas Smith, to whose memory there is a tablet in the Baptist Chapel at Little Leigh, near Northwich.

He is said to have come to the village 'weary and lame', looking for work. He called at Heath House Farm, was given a job, and in time married the farmer's daughter - just as the song relates.

Later he became a Baptist minister and he is buried in the graveyard of the Chapel.

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I pass through the villages of Little Leigh, & Barnton [almost same place] frequently, yet the namesign from either direction is hidden in the hedgerows.