Lees is a surname meaning "open place" and deriving from several locations in England in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire.
[1] Notable people with the surname include: Lees is a small suburb of Oldham located on the old Lancashire-Yorkshire border.
In this area of South East Lancashire along with Oldham many former cotton producing towns such as Bolton, Bury, Middleton, Royton, Crompton and Chadderton, there are many families who still bear the name of Lees.
A Lees Hall once stood on the outskirts of Oldham which was demolished in the mid nineteenth century and unfortunately there are no surviving images.
The Parish records of the town are littered with name of Lees dating back to the fourteenth century.