Place:East Moor Leazes, Brasside, Durham, England

East Moor Leazes has been an area of farm buildings and dwellings, including caravans, around East Moor Leazes Farm. In the 1960s and 1970s (and later?) rooms in East Moor Leazes Farm were rented to students at Durham University.

The locality is mentioned in memories of the First World War, as a location for an exercise in 1915 focused on a river crossing, where a company section had advanced and was entrenched at East Moor Leazes to provide cover for a crossing of the River Wear. See Wartime Memories Project: Life on the Home Front – Cocken Hall Camp: [1]

East Moor Leazes is also mentioned when discussing the transport of coal by waggonway from Framwellgate Moor Colliery (sunk in 1841 and closed in 1925), noting a line that went in the direction of East Moor Leazes. [2]