Lea, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Lea, a parish in Lincolnshire, adjacent to the river Trent, 2½ miles SSE of Gainsborough. It has a station on th& Spalding and Doncaster section of the G.N. and G.E. Joint railway, and a post office under Gainsborough; money order and telegraph office, Gainsborough. Acreage, 2188; population, 188. Lea Hall belongs to the Anderson family, is a mansion of brick standing in park-like grounds, and contains many interesting pictures and antiquities. A Cistercian nunnery was founded in 1180 at Hevening or Heyning by Reyuer Evermere, and has left some traces. The living is. a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £291 with residence. The church, which stands upon an eminence, i& a building in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. It has some old stained glass in the E window, several modern stained windows, a cross-legged effigy in stone of Sir Ranulf Trehampton (about 1300), and several other monuments.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Lea St. Helen | |
Poor Law union | Gainsborough | |
Wapentake | Corringham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Lea:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1600-1911 | 1785-1785 | 1600-1910 | 1600-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lea from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lea (St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of Lea are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury