New Leake, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Leake, New, a village in Leake civil parish, and in the ecclesiastical parish of Eastville, Lincolnshire, in the East Fen, near Fodderdyke, a quarter of a mile W of Eastville station on the G.N.R., and 10 miles NNE of Boston. It has a post and money order office under Boston; telegraph office, Eastville (R.S.) There is a Wesleyan chapel which was ibuilt in 1838.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of New Leake 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: