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I shall go to Leek out of the noise. "This saying is of Congleton origin, and arose through a murder committed a hundred years ago outside that town by a man named Thorley, whose body was gibbeted on West Heath. The deed caused great excitement, and Thorley, hearing people all round him talking about it, uttered the words named, which from that