The civil parish includes the village of Meerbrook, the Roaches (a rocky ridge in the north-east) and most of Tittesworth Reservoir.

[2] The ground is of boulder clay, and the underlying rock is millstone grit.

Leekfrith was historically a township in the large ancient parish of Leek.

Around 1220 the Earl granted the monks an area known as the Rudyard Estate, in the south-west of Leekfrith, where the abbey was built.

In December 2016 four Iron Age gold torcs were found in a field, by two metal detectorists.